On 23/07/19 4:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The davinci_vpfe driver was merged into staging back in 2012 by Manjunath > Hadli from TI, with a long TODO list. > > For all I can tell, since then it has only seen fixes for compile-time > issues and global cleanups, but nobody has actually worked on the items > on the TODO list. > > To make things worse, the driver in its current form is incompatible with > the platform code in arch/arm/mach-davinci, i.e. the driver expects to > get its platform_data passed to the device as a 'struct vpfe_config', > but uses a differnet definition for that structure compared to what the > platform uses. > > Finally, there is another driver for the same device in > drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c. From all I can tell, the > staging version was originally a copy of a more featureful driver in TI's > downstream kernels. However, that kernel no longer supports dm365 after > linux-2.6.37, and the mainline version moved in a different direction. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx> Thanks, Sekhar _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
