[PATCH v4 02/14] Documentation: media: description of DMABUF importing in V4L2

Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab at redhat.com
Thu Apr 19 13:37:44 PDT 2012


Em 19-04-2012 11:32, Tomasz Stanislawski escreveu:
 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> One may find similar sentences in MMAP, USERPTR and DMABUF.
> Maybe the common parts like description of STREAMON/OFF,
> QBUF/DQBUF shuffling should be moved to separate section
> like "Streaming" :).
> 
> Maybe it is worth to introduce a separate patch for this change.
> 
> Frankly, I would prefer to keep the Doc in the current form till
> importer support gets merged. Later the Doc could be fixed.
> 
> BTW. What is the sense of merging userptr and dmabuf section
> if userptr is going to dropped in long-term?

I didn't read yet the rest of the thread, so sorry, if I'm making wrong assumptions...
Am I understanding wrong or are you saying that you want to drop userptr
from V4L2 API in long-term? If so, why?

Regards,
Mauro


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