Re: [RFC V10 3/7] drivers:media:radio: wl128x: FM Driver Common sources

From: Hans Verkuil
Date: Mon Jan 17 2011 - 05:34:12 EST


> Hi Hans and Mauro,
>
> If there are no major comments for the V10 of FM V4L2 driver, is it
> possible to take this driver (V10) to mainline?
>
> Since the files are becoming big to be posted as patches and
> maintaining it that way is a bit difficult. We can submit the patches
> to mainline to fix minor comments and also to add newer features
> (complete scan, stop seek) as patches once this driver makes its way
> in to mainline.
>
> Please let me know your views on this.

I have no objections in merging this for 2.6.39 or even 2.6.38 if Mauro is
willing.

Regards,

Hans

>
> Thanks,
> Manju
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Raja Mani <rajambsc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> balbi,
>>
>>  Agree , interrupt pkts could have handled in thread context . But in
>> the current way , FM driver never create any additional task in the
>> system
>>  to handle FM interrupt. In fact, there is no task being created in
>> this driver to handle FM RDS data, AF,etc.
>>
>>  This method is suitable for light weight system where we want to
>> reduce number of thread in the system.
>>
>>  On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 06:31:23AM -0500, manjunatha_halli@xxxxxx
>>> wrote:
>>>> From: Manjunatha Halli <manjunatha_halli@xxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> These are the sources for the common interfaces required by the
>>>> FM V4L2 driver for TI WL127x and WL128x chips.
>>>>
>>>> These implement the FM channel-8 protocol communication with the
>>>> chip. This makes use of the Shared Transport as its transport.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Manjunatha Halli <manjunatha_halli@xxxxxx>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> looks like this is implementing a "proprietary" (by that I mean: for
>>> this driver only) IRQ API. Why aren't you using GENIRQ with threaded
>>> IRQs support ?
>>>
>>> Core IRQ Subsystem would handle a lot of stuff for you.
>>>
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>> Raja.
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