On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:15:20 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > What's a sub-device? > > ==================== > > > > Well, if we strip v4l2-framework.txt and driver/media from "git grep", we > > have: > > > > For "subdevice", there are several occurences. All of them refers to > > subvendor/subdevice PCI ID. > > > > For "sub-device": most references also talk about PCI subdevices. On all > > places > > (except for V4L), where a subdevice exists, a kernel device is created. > > > > So, basically, only V4L is using sub-device with a different meaning than > > what's at kernel. > > On all other places, a subdevice is just another device. > > > > It seems that we have a misconception here: sub-device is just an alias for > > "device". > > > > IMO, it is better to avoid using "sub-device", as this cause confusion with > > the > > widely used pci subdevice designation. > > We discussed this on the list at the time. I think my original name was > v4l2-client. If you can come up with a better name, then I'm happy to do a > search and replace.
FWIW, I'm also mostly using the video -host and -client notation in soc-camera. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski -- 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
