Message-ID: <1411d7a3913677fee58e103f7610e122686e87bf.camel@ndufresne.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add NVIDIA Tegra114 support to video decoder
 driver
From:   Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@ndufresne.ca>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Anton Bambura <jenneron@protonmail.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc:     linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
        linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:43:40 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20211114224732.11550-1-digetx@gmail.com>
References: <20211114224732.11550-1-digetx@gmail.com>
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Hi Dmitry,

Le lundi 15 novembre 2021 à 01:47 +0300, Dmitry Osipenko a écrit :
> Video decoder of Tegra114/124 SoCs uses additional memory buffer required
> for decoding of protected content. We won't support that content, but it
> is impossible to disable access to the buffer, hence a stub buffer needs
> to be provided. This series enables decoder driver only for Tegra114
> because Tegra124 support requires more non-trivial changes on both kernel
> and userspace sides.

I believe the stateless API is quite in place now, but I only see maintenance on
this staging driver. I don't believe it really make sense to keep maintaining a
staging driver without any step forward de-staging it. I believe it gives the
wrong message on the Kernel staging purpose.

I'm not criticizing your effort, I believe you are doing nice work for you
community, but would prefer to see this driver be ported to the official kernel
APIs rather then being maintain as staging till the end of time.

regards,
Nicolas

> 
> Changelog:
> 
> v2: - Changed tegra_vde_alloc_bo() to return errno and fix unassigned
>       error code in tegra_vde_probe().
> 
> Dmitry Osipenko (1):
>   media: staging: tegra-vde: Reorder misc device registration
> 
> Thierry Reding (2):
>   media: staging: tegra-vde: Support reference picture marking
>   media: staging: tegra-vde: Properly mark invalid entries
> 
>  drivers/staging/media/tegra-vde/vde.c | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/staging/media/tegra-vde/vde.h |  18 ++++
>  2 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>