On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:39:53 +0200 Thierry Reding <thierry.red...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:37:57AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 23:41:09 +0300 > > Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com> wrote: > [...] > > > Incidentally, patch 2/5 in this series is missing a documentation update > > > ;-) > > > > Yep, regarding this patch, I wonder if it's really necessary to add > > new formats to the v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum. > > If we want to move to this new common definition (across the video > > related subsytems), we should deprecate the old enum > > v4l2_mbus_pixelcode, and this start by not adding new formats, don't > > you think ? > > I agree in general, but I think it could prove problematic in practice. > If somebody wants to use one of the new codes but is using the V4L2 enum > they have a problem. > > That said, given that there is now a unified enum people will hopefully > start converting drivers to it instead. I'm more worried about user-space lib/programs as this header is part of the uapi... But let's be optimistic here and keep porting new formats to v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum ;-). Anyway, I still don't know where to put the documentation. Dropping a new video format doc without any context (I mean subdev-formats.xml is included in media documentation, but there's no generic video doc yet) is a bit weird... -- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
