Hi Pavel, On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:50:02AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > adp1653 registers itself as a subdev, but there's no device that > > > > register it as its part. > > > > > > > > (ad5820 driver seems to have the same problem). > > > > > > > > Is there example "dummy" device I could use, for sole purpose of > > > > having these devices appear in /dev? They are on i2c, so both can work > > > > on their own. > > > > > > Ah, interesting. This was discussed a little bit during the Media Summit > > > a few weeks back: > > > > > > http://linuxtv.org/news.php?entry=2016-04-20.mchehab > > > > > > See section 5: > > > > > > "5. DT Bindings for flash & lens controllers > > > > > > There are drivers that create their MC topology using the device tree information, > > > which works great for entities that transport data, but how to detect entities > > > that don’t transport data such as flash devices, focusers, etc.? How can those be > > > deduced using the device tree? > > > > > > Sensor DT node add phandle to focus controller: add generic v4l binding properties > > > to reference such devices." > > > > > > This wasn't a problem with the original N900 since that didn't use DT AFAIK and > > > these devices were loaded explicitly through board code. > > > > But now you run into the same problem that I have. > > Actually... being able to do board-code solution for testing for now > would be nice... > > > > > > > The solution is that sensor devices have to provide phandles to those controller > > > devices. And to do that you need to define bindings which is always the hard part. > > > > > > Look in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt, section > > > "Optional endpoint properties". > > > > > > Something like: > > > > > > controllers: an array of phandles to controller devices associated with this > > > endpoint such as flash and lens controllers. > > > > > > Warning: I'm no DT expert, so this is just a first attempt. > > > > > > Platform drivers (omap3isp) will have to add these controller devices to the list > > > of subdevs to load asynchronously. > > > > I seem to have patches I haven't had time to push back then: > > > > <URL:http://salottisipuli.retiisi.org.uk/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=~sailus/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/leds-as3645a> > > > > That gitweb is a bit confused about its own address, but I figured it > out. Let me check... > > pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-n900$ git fetch > git://git.retiisi.org.uk/~sailus/linux.git leds-as3645a:leds-as3645a > fatal: unable to connect to git.retiisi.org.uk: > git.retiisi.org.uk: Name or service not known > > pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-n900$ git fetch > git://salottisipuli.retiisi.org.uk/~sailus/linux.git > leds-as3645a:leds-as3645a > remote: Counting objects: 132, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (46/46), done. > remote: Total 132 (delta 111), reused 107 (delta 86) > Receiving objects: 100% (132/132), 22.80 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (111/111), completed with 34 local objects. > From git://salottisipuli.retiisi.org.uk/~sailus/linux > * [new branch] leds-as3645a -> leds-as3645a Yeah, that works, too. git alias has been added some three weeks ago so there seem to be something strange going on with DNS. > > > > This seems to be mostly in line with what has been discussed in the meeting, > > except that the patches add a device specific property. Please ignore the > > led patches in that tree for now (i.e. four patches on the top are the > > relevant ones here). > > > > I'm currently trying to apply them to v4.6, but am getting rather ugly > rejects :-(. :-\ There have been patches applied to the omap3isp driver since that I suppose. These aren't overly complex, feel free to take the patches if they're still useful. -- Kind regards, Sakari Ailus e-mail: sakari.ailus@xxxxxx XMPP: sailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
