Re: [RFC PATCH v6 02/11] media: v4l2: Extend pixel formats to unify single/multi-planar handling (and more)

[Dmitry Osipenko]

On 11/7/22 11:30, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 01:11:32AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> On 11/5/22 18:19, Hsia-Jun Li wrote:
>>> Hello Helen
>>>
>>> I didn't see any updates from V6 and V7-WIP in your repo. That is what I
>>> need to for our complex tile formats in our platform.
>>>
>>> Any future plane here?
>>>
>>> Besides I have some ideas on these patches.
>>
>> I was looking into updating this patchset few months ago and the biggest
>> blocker was the absence of immediate upstream user for this new UAPI.
>> What your platform is? Is the driver stack completely opensource?
> 
> libcamera could be a good place to test (part of) this API in userspace.
> We could really do with the data offset feature for instance.

Since we don't have a user for the new UAPI right now, perhaps we can
put the new UAPI behind the staging Kconfig until it will get a
real/production user.

On the other hand, I had unpleasant experience with having UAPI gated by
staging Kconfig for other kernel subsystem in a sense that it
permanently stays a staging UAPI because nobody has time for unstaging it.

I see a common demand in this new UAPI which only becomes stronger over
time. Won't hurt to refresh this patchset. I had a rebased version
locally, but likely it needs to be rebased again. Will try to allocate
time for this.

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Best regards,
Dmitry