On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 22:12:09 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 19:22:00 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > None of the media drivers are compulsory, let users select which drivers > > > > they want to build, instead of having to unselect them one by one. > > > > > > I disagree with this: while this is fine for SoCs, for a generic kernel I > > > think it is better to build it all. Even expert users can have a hard time > > > figuring out what chip is in a particular device. > > > > Then could someone, please, explain to me, why I don't find this > > "convenience" in any other kernel driver class? Wireless, ALSA, USB, I2C - > > you name them. Is there something special about media, that I'm missing, > > or are all others just user-unfriendly? Why are distro-kernels, > > allmodconfig, allyesconfig not enough for media and we think it's > > necessary to build everything "just in case?" > > That's actually a good question. I certainly think that the more obscure > drivers can be disabled by default. But I also think that you want to keep > a certain subset of commonly used drivers enabled. I'm thinking bttv, uvc, > perhaps gspca.
Good, this is a good beginning! It was actually the purpose of my patch - to make us actually consider which drivers we need enabled per default, and which we don't, instead of just enabling all. > As far as I can see, alsa enables for example HD Audio, which almost all > modern hw supports. We should do something similar for v4l. Yes, agree. > And we should really reorder some of the entries in the menu: one of the > first drivers you see are parallel port webcams and other very obscure > devices. Ok. So, how should we proceed? What I certainly would like to disable completely or to 99% are remote controls and tuners. The rest are actually disabled by default, which is great. Or at least I would like to have a single switch "disable all," ideally active by default. One of the possibilities would be to take the patch as is and _then_ begin to think, which drivers we want enabled by default. I just think, that the correct approach is to think, which drivers we need enabled by default - as exceptions, instead of - which drivers we can afford to disable. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- 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
