Em Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:58:33 +0530 "Hiremath, Vaibhav" <hvaib...@ti.com> escreveu:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab [mailto:mche...@infradead.org] > > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 11:42 PM > > To: Hiremath, Vaibhav > > Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [ANOUNCE] Staging trees at V4L/DVB trees > > > > Em Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:51:44 +0530 > > "Hiremath, Vaibhav" <hvaib...@ti.com> escreveu: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: linux-media-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-media- > > > > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Mauro Carvalho Chehab > > > > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:39 AM > > > > To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org > > > > Subject: [ANOUNCE] Staging trees at V4L/DVB trees > > > > > > > > Probably some of you already noticed that we're creating some > > > > staging trees at > > > > V4L/DVB trees. > > > > > > > > There are currently 2 staging trees: > > > > > > > > 1) /linux/drivers/staging - With drivers that aren't ready yet > > for > > > > merge, needing > > > > help for being finished. > > > > > > > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] Hi Mauro, > > > > > > As you know I am also working on OMAP3 V4L2 display driver and > > posted initial patches (Posted by myself and Hardik Shah) to the > > community which went through couple of review cycles. Since it was > > having dependency on DSS2 library being developed by and at Nokia > > (Tomi) we decided to wait for it to be accepted. > > > > > > Now DSS2 has already being submitted to the community and will > > make his way to mainline soon. > > > > > > Do you want me to submit the OMAP3 DSS driver for staging tree, > > this would be really good candidate for this. I will make sure that > > it stays updated and tested till DSS2 gets accepted. > > > > > > Please let me know your inputs, if you feel it should be done then > > I will submit patch tomorrow as soon as I get into office. > > > > Hmm... if it has dependency with another tree, this may be a problem > > since my > > intention is to merge the three drivers we have currently at kernel > > drivers/staging (in fact two of them, since go7007 is already > > there), but, if > > they compile fine, even without DSS2 library (is it a kernel > > library?), then, > > that's fine for staging. > > > > > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] Yes, this is kernel level library which sits underneath > driver, V4L2 and Fbdev and provides seamless DSS hardware access to above > drivers. They won't compile without it. > > V4L2 Fbdev > | | > ---------------------------------- > | | > DSS2 VRFB > | | > OMAP3 DSS HW VRFB HW engine > > But should it be ok if I put dependency in Kconfig itself? The file won't get > compiled. I understand we won't gain anything with this, this is just another > tree to hold, and this is one of the main reason I stopped pushing this > patch. > The patch is submit worthy and cater most of the requirements, but due to > some dependencies it has blocked till now. Well, what would be the gain on having it there upstream without being capable of compiling? I would prefer if you add it at some -hg tree and ask me to pull after having the DSS2 library at upstream or at linux-next. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
