Hi Murali, On Tuesday 23 March 2010 18:52:44 Karicheri, Muralidharan wrote: > Laurent, > > > > I'm not too sure to like the ti-media name. It will soon get quite > > > crowded, and name collisions might occur (look at the linux-omap-camera > > > tree and the ISP driver in there for instance). Isn't there an internal > > > name to refer to both the DM6446 and AM3517 that could be used ? > > > > [Hiremath, Vaibhav] Laurent, > > > > ti-media directory is top level directory where we are putting all TI > > devices drivers. So having said that, we should worrying about what goes > > inside this directory. > > For me ISP is more generic, if you compare davinci and OMAP. > > > > Frankly, there are various naming convention we do have from device to > > device, even if the IP's are being reused. For example, the internal name > > for OMAP is ISP but Davinci refers it as a VPSS. > > Could you explain what name space issue you are referring to in > linux-omap-camera since I am not quite familiar with that tree?
The linux-omap-camera tree contains a driver for the OMAP3 ISP. Basically, most source files start with the "isp" prefix and are stored in drivers/media/video/isp/. ISP is quite a generic name, and other vendors will probably develop an ISP at some point (if not already done), so there's already a potential name conflict today. Using a dedicated directory in drivers/media/video for TI-specific cores is definitely a good idea (assuming the same IP cores won't be used by other vendors in the future). My concern is that, if we move the ISP driver in drivers/media/video/ti-media, the directory will soon get quite crowded. If a new TI processor comes up with a totally incompatible ISP, we will get a name conflict in drivers/media/video/ti-media. I was thinking about either replacing the "isp" prefix with "omap3isp" (or similar), or moving the driver to drivers/media/video/ti-media/omap3isp, but that will impede code sharing code between the Davinci and OMAP processor families. That's where my uncertainty comes from. > Myself and Vaibhav had discussed this in the past and ti-media is the > generic name that we could agree on. On DM SoCs (DM6446, DM355, DM365) I > expect ti-media to be the home for all vpfe and vpbe driver files. Since > we had a case of common IP across OMAP and DMxxx SoCs, we want to place > all OMAP and DMxxx video driver files in a common directory so that > sharing the drivers across the SoCs will be easy. We could discuss and > agree on another name if need be. Any suggestions? It's not the name ti-media that I don't agree on, it's just that this will move the problem one step further in the directory hierarchy without actually solving it :-) Is it guaranteed today that no TI processors with new generation video blocks will reuse the names ISP, VPFE and VPBE ? The OMAP3 datasheet refers to VPFE and VPBE, but luckily those blocks are further divided into subblocks, and the driver doesn't refer to the VPFE and VPBE directly. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- 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
