On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:14:08AM +0200, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: > Hi Sakari, > > On 09/01/2011 10:47 AM, Sakari Ailus wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:15:20AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > >> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Sakari Ailus wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:27:49PM +0000, Bastian Hecht wrote: > >>>> 2011/8/28 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com>: > >>> [clip] > >>>>> If I'm not mistaken V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE is deprecated. > >>>> > >>>> I checked at http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/spec/x542.htm, googled > >>>> "V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE deprecated" and read > >>>> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. I couldn't find anything. > >>> > >>> Hmm. Did you happen to check when that has been written? :) > >>> > >>> Please use this one instead: > >>> > >>> <URL:http://hverkuil.home.xs4all.nl/spec/media.html> > >> > >> "Drivers can also implement their own custom controls using > >> V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE and higher values." > >> > >> Which specific location describes V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE differently there? > > > > That was a general comment, not related to the private base. There's no > > use for a three-year-old spec as a reference! > > > > The control framework does not support private controls, for example. The > > controls should be put to their own class in videodev2.h nowadays, that's my > > understanding. Cc Hans. > > Is this really the case that we close the door for private controls in > the mainline kernel ? Or am I misunderstanding something ? > How about v4l2_ctrl_new_custom() ? > > What if there are controls applicable to single driver only ? > Do we really want to have plenty of such in videodev2.h ?
We have some of those already in videodev2.h. I'm not certain if I'm happy with this myself, considering e.g. that we could get a few truckloads of only camera lens hardware specific controls in the near future. -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ai...@iki.fi -- 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
