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

[Sylwester Nawrocki]

(adding Guennadi to Cc)

On 11/02/14 17:36, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 11.02.2014, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
>> Hi Russell,
>>
>> On Tuesday 11 February 2014 14:52:48 Russell King - ARM Linux 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 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?
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Just pointing out a missing location (which might be rejected due to similar 
>> concerns), there's also drivers/media, which isn't V4L-specific.
> 
> Since drivers/Makefile has media/ in obj-y, moving the graph helpers to
> drivers/media should technically work.
> 
>>> Maybe drivers/of-graph/ ?  Or maybe it's just as good a place to move it
>>> into drivers/of ?
> 
> include/media/of_graph.h,
> drivers/media/of_graph.c?

drivers/media sounds like a good alternative to me.

I would just remove also v4l2_of_{parse/get}* and update the users
to call of_graph_* directly, there should not be many of them.

--
Thanks,
Sylwester

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