Hi Hans,

Thank you for the patches.

On Tuesday 04 March 2014 12:30:55 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Currently the VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G/S_EDID and struct v4l2_subdev_edid are subdev
> APIs. However, that's in reality quite annoying since for simple video
> pipelines there is no need to create v4l-subdev device nodes for anything
> else except for setting or getting EDIDs.
> 
> What happens in practice is that v4l2 bridge drivers add explicit support
> for VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G/S_EDID themselves, just to avoid having to create
> subdev device nodes just for this.
> 
> So this patch series makes the ioctls available as regular ioctls as
> well. In that case the pad field should be set to 0 and the bridge driver
> will fill in the right pad value internally depending on the current
> input or output and pass it along to the actual subdev driver.

Would it make sense to allow usage of the pad field on video nodes as well ?

Apart from that and minor issues with patch 2/4 this series looks good to me.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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