aio / ioctl / sideband informations

[EVS Hardware Dpt]

Hi Ezequiel,

I'll double check if V4L2 is suitable for my needs or if some minor
modifications would make it more appropriate.

Best Regards,
Fred.

2012/10/11 Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia at gmail.com>

> Hi Fred,
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM, EVS Hardware Dpt
> <hardware.evs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ezequiel,
> >
> > It's our own HD Sdi board. As far as I understand, being professional
> > broadcast oriented, it doesn't fall into V4L usage.
> >
>
> Wow, you read my mind, I was going to suggest you to look into
> V4L2 framework :-)
> If you've already considered and discarded that path, then that's fine.
>
> Let me just say V4L2 has evolved a lot and it's nowadays quite mature.
> If you ever plan to try to mainline your driver
> (which has an endless amount of benefits) then you should start
> by RFCing something to the linux-media list.
>
> If you implement a whole bunch of APIs out of tree, you may end
> with some weird implementation, which may be impossible to mainline
> and improbable to get support from developers around here.
>
> Of course, this is not necessarily your case.
>
> Hope this helps and good luck!
>
>     Ezequiel
>
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