Re: [PATCH] usbvision: remove (broken) image format conversion

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 04/26/2011 08:32 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Monday, April 25, 2011 23:23:17 Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > The YVU420 and YUV422P formats are broken and cause kernel panic on use.
> > (YVU420 does not work and sometimes causes "unable to handle paging request"
> > panic, YUV422P always causes "NULL pointer dereference").
> >
> > As V4L2 spec says that drivers shouldn't do any in-kernel image format
> > conversion, remove it completely (except YUYV).
>
> What really should happen is that the conversion is moved to libv4lconvert.
> I've never had the time to tackle that, but it would improve this driver a
> lot.
>
> Would you perhaps be interested in doing that work?

Seconded! I would be more then happy to help with the libv4l part (in the form
of review + merging + advice).

Regards,

Hans
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