Re: [PATCH 1/2] media: docs-rst: Document memory-to-memory video decoder interface

[Tomasz Figa]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 5:27 PM Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Tomasz, just a few thoughts I came across while writing the
> stateless codec document:
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:06 PM Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [snip]
> > +****************************************
> > +Memory-to-memory Video Decoder Interface
> > +****************************************
>
> Since we have a m2m stateless decoder interface, can we call this the
> m2m video *stateful* decoder interface? :)

I guess it could make sense indeed. Let's wait for some other opinions, if any.

>
> > +Conventions and notation used in this document
> > +==============================================
> [snip]
> > +Glossary
> > +========
>
> I think these sections apply to both stateless and stateful. How about
> moving then into dev-codec.rst and mentioning that they apply to the
> two following sections?

Or maybe we could put them into separate rst files and source them at
the top of each interface documentation? Personally, I'm okay with
either. On a related note, I'd love to see some kind of glossary
lookup on mouse hoover, so that I don't have to scroll back and forth.
:)

Best regards,
Tomasz