Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:11:54 +0200 | From | Hans de Goede <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] usbvision: remove (broken) image format conversion |
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Hi,
On 04/26/2011 08:32 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Monday, April 25, 2011 23:23:17 Ondrej Zary wrote: >> The YVU420 and YUV422P formats are broken and cause kernel panic on use. >> (YVU420 does not work and sometimes causes "unable to handle paging request" >> panic, YUV422P always causes "NULL pointer dereference"). >> >> As V4L2 spec says that drivers shouldn't do any in-kernel image format >> conversion, remove it completely (except YUYV). > > What really should happen is that the conversion is moved to libv4lconvert. > I've never had the time to tackle that, but it would improve this driver a > lot. > > Would you perhaps be interested in doing that work? >
Seconded! I would be more then happy to help with the libv4l part (in the form of review + merging + advice).
Regards,
Hans
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