Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264980AbUJWGtr (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:49:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267378AbUJWGrh (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:47:37 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:15841 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271433AbUJVQya (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:54:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac3 From: Alan Cox To: Gerd Knorr Cc: Luca Risolia , Luc Saillard , Linux Kernel Mailing List , akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <878y9y269v.fsf@bytesex.org> References: <20041022101335.6dcf247a.luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> <20041022092102.GA16963@sd291.sivit.org> <20041022143036.462742ca.luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> <878y9y269v.fsf@bytesex.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1098460282.19459.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:51:23 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 778 Lines: 16 On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 15:10, Gerd Knorr wrote: > The corner case are the vendor-specific compressions. IMHO it doesn't > make much sense to attempt to implement every strange format some > engineer invented in every v4l2 application. Especially if there is > no free implementation of it (which is the reason the non-gpl pwcx > module was created IIRC). The pwc formats look like they can be done a lot faster in MMX, which argues for some format of user space exposure and a set of format idents for "vendor foo, protocol 0" etc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/