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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [media] v4l2-core: Fine-tuning for some function implementations
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 17:27:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85cf0892-68d4-560e-58df-874148d82143@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f48e9219-3092-1b1f-4458-f9437746bf14@xs4all.nl>

>> Will the software evolution be continued for related source files?
>> Are there any update candidates left over in the directory “v4l2-core”?
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand the question.

I try to explain my view again.


> We don't want to touch the videobuf-* files unless there is a very good reason.

I hoped that my update suggestions could be good enough once more for this area.


> That old videobuf framework is deprecated and the code is quite fragile
> (i.e. easy to break things).

How do you think about to move this stuff into a separate subdirectory
so that it might become a bit easier to distinguish these software components?


> Everything else in that directory is under continuous development.

I am curious if there are still update candidates left over
(also from my selection of change possibilities).

Regards,
Markus

      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-23 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-26 20:41 [PATCH 0/8] [media] v4l2-core: Fine-tuning for some function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-26 20:43 ` [PATCH 1/8] [media] v4l2-async: Use kmalloc_array() in v4l2_async_notifier_unregister() SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-27  9:52   ` Sakari Ailus
2016-12-26 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/8] [media] v4l2-async: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation " SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-27 11:47   ` Sakari Ailus
2017-01-31  9:55   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-12-26 20:47 ` [PATCH 3/8] [media] videobuf-dma-sg: Use kmalloc_array() in videobuf_dma_init_user_locked() SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-26 20:48 ` [PATCH 4/8] [media] videobuf-dma-sg: Adjust 24 checks for null values SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-09 10:30   ` Dan Carpenter
2016-12-26 20:50 ` [PATCH 5/8] [media] videobuf-dma-sg: Move two assignments for error codes in __videobuf_mmap_mapper() SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-26 20:51 ` [PATCH 6/8] [media] videobuf-dma-sg: Improve a size determination " SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-26 20:52 ` [PATCH 7/8] [media] videobuf-dma-sg: Delete an unnecessary return statement in videobuf_vm_close() SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-26 20:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] [media] videobuf-dma-sg: Add some spaces for better code readability in videobuf_dma_init_user_locked() SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-27 11:51 ` [PATCH 0/8] [media] v4l2-core: Fine-tuning for some function implementations Sakari Ailus
2017-01-02 14:54   ` Hans Verkuil
2017-09-22 20:08     ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-09-23  7:35       ` Hans Verkuil
2017-09-23 15:27         ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]

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