Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755921AbYLBRV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:21:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754728AbYLBRVU (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:21:20 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:59395 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754696AbYLBRVT (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:21:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:21:00 -0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Hans Verkuil , video4linux-list@redhat.com, "v4l-dvb maintainer list" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davinci-linux-open-source-bounces@linux.davincidsp.com Subject: Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-ng Message-ID: <20081202152100.0a4dd2c1@pedra.chehab.org> In-Reply-To: <200812021758.35503.laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> References: <200812011246.08885.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <200812011524.43499.laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> <20081201130643.661f5743@pedra.chehab.org> <200812021758.35503.laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 27 On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:58:35 +0100 Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Are you meaning marking this as experimental at Kconfig? This seems too > > complex, since we'll need to test for some var on every driver that were > > converted, providing two KABI options for each converted driver (the legacy > > and the v4l2_device way). This doesn't seem to be a good idea, since will > > add a lot of extra complexity to debug bugs. > > Not at the Kconfig level, just in the documentation (and possible headers). Ah, ok. Good point. > This is a work in progress. Hans wants the changes to go mainline to get > broader testing, which is a valid reason, but I'd like to make sure people > understand that more changes are coming. Maybe instead we should have a TODO list somewhere with the programmed changes, especially at the subsystem core. Cheers, Mauro -- 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/