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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] Reorganize media Kconfig
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:53:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200324135359.GA21251@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1585057134.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

Hi Mauro,

Thank you for the patches.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 02:42:53PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> This patch series do lots of reorg at the media Kconfig options.
> It also move test drivers from platform dir to a new one.
> 
> After this change, the main config is organized on menus, allowing to
> select:
> 
> 	- type of devices selection - the filtering options
> 	- Media core options - with API and other core stuff
> 	- Media core extra options
> 	- Media drivers
> 	- Media ancillary drivers
> 
> The "type of devices" menu has the filtering options for:
> 
> 	- Cameras and video grabbers
> 	- Analog TV
> 	- Digital TV
> 	- AM/FM radio receivers/transmitters
> 	- SDR
> 	- CEC
> 	- Embeded devices (SoC)
> 	- Test drivers
> 
> This way, one interested only on embedded devices can unselect
> everything but "Embedded devices (SoC)" option.
> 
> Distros for PC/Laptops can enable everything but 
> "Embedded devices (SoC)" and "Test drivers".

How about a device such as the Intel IPU3 ? It's a SoC, and is present
in laptops. Unlike the physical interface which is a fairly well defined
way to categorize devices, creating artificial classes will always leave
some devices without a home. We could have a capture card that supports
both analog and digital TV. A digital TV capture card with an HDMI input
can have a CEC device. Lots of combinations are possible.

> Users can select just what they want, without bothering with
> hundreds of options that he won't have any clue about their
> meanings.
> 
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (20):
>   media: dvb-usb: auto-select CYPRESS_FIRMWARE
>   media: Kconfig: not all V4L2 platform drivers are for camera
>   media: pci: move VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON to a different Kconfig
>   media: reorganize the drivers menu options
>   media: Kconfig: update the MEDIA_SUPPORT help message
>   media: Kconfig: use a sub-menu to select supported devices
>   media: Kconfig: add an option to filter in/out the embedded drivers
>   media: split test drivers from platform directory
>   media: Kconfig: make filtering devices optional
>   media: Kconfig: move CEC-specific options to cec/Kconfig
>   media: Kconfig: move comment to siano include
>   media: Kconfig: move DVB-specific options to dvb-core/Kconfig
>   media: Kconfig: move V4L2 subdev API to v4l2-core/Kconfig
>   media: Kconfig: move drivers-specific TTPCI_EEPROM Kconfig var
>   media: Kconfig: move media controller core select to main Kconfig
>   media: Kconfig: better organize menu items
>   media: Kconfig: mode firewire comment to firewire/Kconfig
>   media: Kconfig: place all options under a sub-menu
>   media: Kconfig: move the position of sub-driver autoselection
>   media: Kconfig: on !EMBEDDED && !EXPERT, enable driver filtering
> 
>  drivers/media/Kconfig                         | 216 ++++++++++--------
>  drivers/media/cec/Kconfig                     |  10 +
>  drivers/media/common/Kconfig                  |   2 +-
>  drivers/media/dvb-core/Kconfig                |  26 +++
>  drivers/media/firewire/Kconfig                |   5 +-
>  drivers/media/mc/Kconfig                      |   9 -
>  drivers/media/mmc/Kconfig                     |   1 -
>  drivers/media/mmc/siano/Kconfig               |   2 +
>  drivers/media/pci/Kconfig                     |  10 +
>  drivers/media/platform/Kconfig                |  24 --
>  drivers/media/platform/Makefile               |   5 -
>  drivers/media/test_drivers/Kconfig            |  28 +++
>  drivers/media/test_drivers/Makefile           |   9 +
>  .../vicodec/Kconfig                           |   0
>  .../vicodec/Makefile                          |   0
>  .../vicodec/codec-fwht.c                      |   0
>  .../vicodec/codec-fwht.h                      |   0
>  .../vicodec/codec-v4l2-fwht.c                 |   0
>  .../vicodec/codec-v4l2-fwht.h                 |   0
>  .../vicodec/vicodec-core.c                    |   0
>  .../media/{platform => test_drivers}/vim2m.c  |   0
>  .../{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/Kconfig   |   0
>  .../{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/Makefile  |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-capture.c                       |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-common.c                        |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-common.h                        |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-core.c                          |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-debayer.c                       |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-scaler.c                        |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-sensor.c                        |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-streamer.c                      |   0
>  .../vimc/vimc-streamer.h                      |   0
>  .../{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/Kconfig  |   0
>  .../{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/Makefile |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-cec.c                         |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-cec.h                         |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-core.c                        |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-core.h                        |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-ctrls.c                       |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-ctrls.h                       |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c                 |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.h                 |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c                 |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-kthread-out.h                 |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-kthread-touch.c               |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-kthread-touch.h               |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-meta-cap.c                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-meta-cap.h                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-meta-out.c                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-meta-out.h                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-osd.c                         |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-osd.h                         |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-radio-common.c                |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-radio-common.h                |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-radio-rx.c                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-radio-rx.h                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-radio-tx.c                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-radio-tx.h                    |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-rds-gen.c                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-rds-gen.h                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-sdr-cap.c                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-sdr-cap.h                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-touch-cap.c                   |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-touch-cap.h                   |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vbi-cap.c                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vbi-cap.h                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vbi-gen.c                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vbi-gen.h                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vbi-out.c                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vbi-out.h                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vid-cap.c                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vid-cap.h                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vid-common.c                  |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vid-common.h                  |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vid-out.c                     |   0
>  .../vivid/vivid-vid-out.h                     |   0
>  drivers/media/usb/Kconfig                     |   6 +
>  drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/Kconfig             |   1 +
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/Kconfig               |  19 +-
>  79 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/media/test_drivers/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/media/test_drivers/Makefile
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vicodec/Kconfig (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vicodec/Makefile (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vicodec/codec-fwht.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vicodec/codec-fwht.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vicodec/codec-v4l2-fwht.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vicodec/codec-v4l2-fwht.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vicodec/vicodec-core.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vim2m.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/Kconfig (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/Makefile (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-capture.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-common.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-common.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-core.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-debayer.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-scaler.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-sensor.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-streamer.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vimc/vimc-streamer.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/Kconfig (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/Makefile (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-cec.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-cec.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-core.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-core.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-ctrls.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-ctrls.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-kthread-touch.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-kthread-touch.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-meta-cap.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-meta-cap.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-meta-out.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-meta-out.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-osd.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-osd.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-radio-common.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-radio-common.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-radio-rx.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-radio-rx.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-radio-tx.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-radio-tx.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-rds-gen.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-rds-gen.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-sdr-cap.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-sdr-cap.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-touch-cap.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-touch-cap.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vbi-cap.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vbi-cap.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vbi-gen.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vbi-gen.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vbi-out.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vbi-out.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vid-cap.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vid-cap.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vid-common.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vid-common.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vid-out.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/media/{platform => test_drivers}/vivid/vivid-vid-out.h (100%)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-24 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24 13:42 [PATCH v2 00/20] Reorganize media Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 01/20] media: dvb-usb: auto-select CYPRESS_FIRMWARE Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] media: Kconfig: not all V4L2 platform drivers are for camera Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] media: pci: move VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON to a different Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] media: reorganize the drivers menu options Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] media: Kconfig: update the MEDIA_SUPPORT help message Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] media: Kconfig: use a sub-menu to select supported devices Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] media: Kconfig: add an option to filter in/out the embedded drivers Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] media: split test drivers from platform directory Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 09/20] media: Kconfig: make filtering devices optional Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] media: Kconfig: move CEC-specific options to cec/Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] media: Kconfig: move comment to siano include Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] media: Kconfig: move DVB-specific options to dvb-core/Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] media: Kconfig: move V4L2 subdev API to v4l2-core/Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] media: Kconfig: move drivers-specific TTPCI_EEPROM Kconfig var Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] media: Kconfig: move media controller core select to main Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 16/20] media: Kconfig: better organize menu items Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 17/20] media: Kconfig: mode firewire comment to firewire/Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 18/20] media: Kconfig: place all options under a sub-menu Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 19/20] media: Kconfig: move the position of sub-driver autoselection Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 20/20] media: Kconfig: on !EMBEDDED && !EXPERT, enable driver filtering Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:53 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2020-03-24 14:02   ` [PATCH v2 00/20] Reorganize media Kconfig Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-03-24 13:58 ` Hans Verkuil
2020-03-24 14:27   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-16  9:51 ` David Hildenbrand

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