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Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver

From Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver
Date 2017-01-24 12:30 +0100
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On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 12:08 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 01/23/2017 12:00 PM, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 21:39 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
[...]
> As long as it is mentioned in the TODO, and ideally in the Kconfig as well,
> then I'm fine with it.
>
> The big advantage of being in the kernel is that it is much easier to start
> providing fixes, improvements, etc. If you use a staging driver you know
> that there is no guarantee whatsoever with respect to stable ABI/APIs.

Of course, but there should be a clear way how to progress on those
issues that are documented as blockers, otherwise the driver will linger
in staging.
Worse, currently we are not even in agreement what to put into the TODO.

regards
Philipp

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Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-01-20 15:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-01-20 17:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-01-20 19:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-01-20 21:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-01-23 12:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - 2017-01-23 12:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-01-24 12:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-01-24 00:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-01-24 12:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com> - 2017-01-28 20:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] i.MX Media Driver Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-01-30 14:10 +0100

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