Hans Verkuil wrote:
On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:20, Simon Kenyon wrote:
kevin wrote the driver, way back when (i first started using in in 03)
chris just sort of just took over from kevin, but in now looks like hans
has done so.
am i correct?
just me being curious
Sort of, yeah. At least for a while. I really want to get this better
organized and on the way to inclusion in the kernel. Once that's on the road
I probably won't spend as much time on it as I do now, knowing myself :-)
Well I haven't went anywhere exactly :-), Hans is just doing so much
great work right now on the driver and getting things setup a bit
better. I've never said I was more than doing raw work on the driver
anyways and have really been satisfied lately with the core of the
driver with DMA and general research of the chip to get all the
possibilities and ways to configure it discovered.
So with my current work load and feelings of having really taken the
driver beyond the original schemes of DMA and driver models to redesign
the way it works for my needs with past jobs and wanting a production
quality driver, I'm happy and fortunately Hans is taking up maintaining
for the time being. Now the real question is long term maintaining, I
of course always will have a big interest in this driver and be doing
many things in the future. I doubt that many are going to want to long
term maintain it totally close up and once in the kernel it will save us
alot of work, but then again will need someone to go to possibly still
for some things unique to the encoder chip. One cool thing would be
possibly adding real V4L2 buffer support unless someone beats me to it
(although have mostly engineered the current buffering and DMA system so
probably partly responsible to get that since most familiar with the
drivers inner workings), I did this working for Conexant in their Linux
driver for the newer cx23418 chips so can say I know the general things
needing to be done, but of course have to do it from scratch again and
not enough time right now to do so with needing real work to survive and
make money just like Kevin went off to do originally :-).
Thanks,
Chris
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