On 06/17/2016 09:04 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Janusz, > > On 06/16/2016 07:21 PM, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: >> As requested by media subsystem maintainers, here is an attempt to >> convert the omap1_camera driver to the vb2 framework. Also, conversion >> to the dmaengine framework, long awaited by ARM/OMAP maintainers, is >> done. >> >> Next, I'm going to approach removal of soc-camera dependency. Please >> let me know how much time I have for that, i.e., when the soc-camera >> framework is going to be depreciated. > > Well, it is already deprecated (i.e. new drivers cannot use it), but it won't > be removed any time soon. There are still drivers depending on it, and some > aren't easy to rewrite. > > I have to say that it is totally unexpected to see that this omap1 driver is still > used. In fact, we've already merged a patch that removed it for the upcoming > 4.8 kernel. Based on this new development I'll revert that for the omap1 > driver. Actually, I decided not to revert it. So it will be removed in 4.8. However, that does not affect you. Just bring it back once it is in shape. Regards, Hans > > Out of curiosity: is supporting the Amstrad Delta something you do as a hobby > or are there other reasons? > > A final note: once you've managed to drop the soc-camera dependency you should > run the v4l2-compliance test over the video node (https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/). > > If that passes without failures, then this driver is in good shape and can be > moved out of staging again. > > Regards, > > Hans > >> >> Thanks, >> Janusz >> >> >> Janusz Krzysztofik (3): >> staging: media: omap1: drop videobuf-dma-sg mode >> staging: media: omap1: convert to videobuf2 >> staging: media: omap1: use dmaengine >> >> drivers/staging/media/omap1/Kconfig | 5 +- >> drivers/staging/media/omap1/omap1_camera.c | 948 +++++------------------ >> include/linux/platform_data/media/omap1_camera.h | 9 - >> 3 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 745 deletions(-) >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
