Re: [PATCH 4/4] SoC camera: Tidy the header

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 06:40:30AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:29:45 +0200
> Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
> > Hi Mauro,
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:06:18AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > Em Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:00:29 +0200
> > > Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > >   
> > > > Clean up the SoC camera framework header. It only exists now to keep board
> > > > code compiling. The header can be removed once the board code dependencies
> > > > to it has been removed.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  include/media/soc_camera.h | 335 ---------------------------------------------
> > > >  1 file changed, 335 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/include/media/soc_camera.h b/include/media/soc_camera.h
> > > > index b7e42a1b0910..14d19da6052a 100644
> > > > --- a/include/media/soc_camera.h
> > > > +++ b/include/media/soc_camera.h
> > > > @@ -22,172 +22,6 @@
> > > >  #include <media/v4l2-ctrls.h>
> > > >  #include <media/v4l2-device.h>  
> > > 
> > > That doesn't make any sense. soc_camera.h should have the same fate
> > > as the entire soc_camera infrastructure: either be removed or moved
> > > to staging, and everything else that doesn't have the same fate
> > > should get rid of this header.  
> > 
> > We can't just remove this; there is board code that depends on it.
> > 
> > The intent is to remove the board code as well but presuming that the board
> > code would be merged through a different tree, it'd be less hassle to wait
> > a bit; hence the patch removing any unnecessary stuff here.
> 
> Then we need *first* to remove board code, wait for those changes to be
> applied and *then* remove soc_camera (and not the opposite).

Any reasoning behind that?

It's dead code and there is no dependency between the SoC camera framework
(apart from the header) and the board code.

-- 
Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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