videodev.ko and v4l2-common.ko driver are built under
the same conditions. Therefore, it doesn't make much sense
to split them in two different modules.
Splitting v4l2-common to its own driver has done many
years ago:
commit a9254475bbfbed5f0596d952c6a3c9806e19dd0b
Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 29 18:32:35 2008 -0300
V4L/DVB (7115): Fix bug #9833: regression when compiling V4L without I2C
Back then, the subsystem organization was different.
However, With the current organization, there is no issue
compiling V4L2 with I2C as y/m/n.
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/v4l2-core/Makefile | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/Makefile b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/Makefile
index 4d42418e603e..8e2f52f7800b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/Makefile
@@ -7,14 +7,13 @@ tuner-objs := tuner-core.o
videodev-objs := v4l2-dev.o v4l2-ioctl.o v4l2-device.o v4l2-fh.o \
v4l2-event.o v4l2-ctrls.o v4l2-subdev.o v4l2-clk.o \
- v4l2-async.o
+ v4l2-async.o v4l2-common.o
videodev-$(CONFIG_COMPAT) += v4l2-compat-ioctl32.o
videodev-$(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) += v4l2-trace.o
videodev-$(CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER) += v4l2-mc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_V4L2_FWNODE) += v4l2-fwnode.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2) += videodev.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2) += v4l2-common.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2) += v4l2-dv-timings.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_TUNER) += tuner.o
--
2.22.0
