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Kconfig: disable Media Controller for DVB

Message ID 1434371389-8143-1-git-send-email-mchehab@osg.samsung.com (mailing list archive)
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab June 15, 2015, 12:29 p.m. UTC 
Since when we start discussions about the usage Media Controller for
complex hardware, one thing become clear: the way it is, MC fails to
map anything different than capture/output/m2m video-only streaming.

The point is that MC has entities named as devnodes, but the only
devnode used (before the DVB patches) is MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE_V4L.
Due to the way MC got implemented, however, this entity actually
doesn't represent the devnode, but the hardware I/O engine that
receives data via DMA.

By coincidence, such DMA is associated with the V4L device node
on webcam hardware, but this is not true even for other V4L2
devices. For example, on USB hardware, the DMA is done via the
USB controller. The data passes though a in-kernel filter that
strips off the URB headers. Other V4L2 devices like radio may not
even have DMA. When it have, the DMA is done via ALSA, and not
via the V4L devnode.

In other words, MC is broken as a whole, but tagging it as BROKEN
right now would do more harm than good.

So, instead, let's mark, for now, the DVB part as broken and
block all new changes to MC while we fix this mess, whith
we hopefully will do for the next Kernel version.

Requested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
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 drivers/media/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/Kconfig b/drivers/media/Kconfig
index 3ef0f90b128f..157099243d61 100644
--- a/drivers/media/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/media/Kconfig
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@  config MEDIA_CONTROLLER
 config MEDIA_CONTROLLER_DVB
 	bool "Enable Media controller for DVB"
 	depends on MEDIA_CONTROLLER
+	depends on BROKEN
 	---help---
 	  Enable the media controller API support for DVB.