Re: [RFC PATCH] [media]: of: move graph helpers from drivers/media/v4l2-core to drivers/of

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:56:33AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > This allows to reuse the same parser code from outside the V4L2 framework,
>> > most importantly from display drivers. There have been patches that duplicate
>> > the code (and I am going to send one of my own), such as
>> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-August/043308.html
>> > and others that parse the same binding in a different way:
>> > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg100761.html
>> >
>> > I think that all common video interface parsing helpers should be moved to a
>> > single place, outside of the specific subsystems, so that it can be reused
>> > by all drivers.
>>
>> Perhaps that should be done rather than moving to drivers/of now and
>> then again to somewhere else.
>
> Do you have a better suggestion where it should move to?

No.

> drivers/gpu/drm - no, because v4l2 wants to use it
> drivers/media/video - no, because DRM drivers want to use it
> drivers/video - no, because v4l2 and drm drivers want to use it

I don't believe it exists currently, so it would need to be created.
Perhaps adding a layer of directory to combine these. This patch alone
is not enough to really justify that, but if there's a lot more shared
code possible then it would be the right direction.

> Maybe drivers/of-graph/ ?  Or maybe it's just as good a place to move it
> into drivers/of ?

I assume you weren't serious, but no for /of-graph. If a better place
can't be found/made, I'll take it.

Rob
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