[PATCH] staging: media/platform/bcm2835: remove gstreamer workaround

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Apr 8 07:59:24 PDT 2017


On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 12:48:15AM -0400, Kevin Wern wrote:
> Gstreamer's v4l2src reacted poorly to certain outputs from the bcm2835
> video driver's ioctl ops function vidioc_enum_framesizes, so a
> workaround was created that could be activated by user input. This
> workaround would replace the driver's ioctl ops struct with another,
> similar struct--only with no function pointed to by
> vidioc_enum_framesizes. With no response, gstreamer would attempt to
> continue with some default settings that happened to work better.
> 
> However, this bug has been fixed in gstreamer since 2014, so we
> shouldn't include this workaround in the stable version of the driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wern <kevin.m.wern at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/TODO        |  5 --
>  .../media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c        | 59 ----------------------
>  2 files changed, 64 deletions(-)

Doesn't apply against my tree at all :(

thanks,

greg k-h



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