Re: Template for a new driver

["Devin Heitmueller" <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Monday 15 December 2008 02:01:14 Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am writing a new driver for a video decoder, and wanted to ask if
>> there was any particular driver people would suggest as a model to
>> look at for new drivers.  For example, I am not completely familiar
>> with which interfaces are deprecated, and want to make sure I use a
>> driver as a template that reflects the latest standards/conventions.
>>
>> Suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Devin
>
> Hi Devin,
>
> You definitely want to use the new v4l2_subdev framework for this. Read
> Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt for more info.
>
> A good example template is probably saa7115.c. Not as big and
> complicated as the audio-video decoder cx25840, but still a good
> non-trivial example.
>
> I also recommend using struct v4l2_i2c_driver_data if you desire to be
> compatible with older kernels. The main reason for having this struct
> is to hide all the ugly kernel #ifdefs.
>
> Regards,
>
>        Hans

Thanks for the feedback.  Because I didn't wait for more responses
last night, I ended up using the cx25840 driver as the base, which
seems to have been a good choice.

Cheers,

Devin

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