Re: [PATCH v5, 00/15] Using component framework to support multi hardware decode

[Ezequiel Garcia]

+danvet

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 23:58, Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series adds support for multi hardware decode into mtk-vcodec, by first
> adding component framework to manage each hardware information: interrupt,
> clock, register bases and power. Secondly add core thread to deal with core
> hardware message, at the same time, add msg queue for different hardware
> share messages. Lastly, the architecture of different specs are not the same,
> using specs type to separate them.
>

I don't think it's a good idea to introduce the component API in the
media subsystem. It doesn't seem to be maintained, IRC there's not even
a maintainer for it, and it has some issues that were never addressed.

It would be really important to avoid it. Is it really needed in the
first place?

Thanks,
Ezequiel