Thank you Daniel and Kieran, Will take a look at the ancillary links and try to backport. -- Regards, Karthik Poduval On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 2:36 PM Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Karthik, > > Quoting Karthik Poduval (2022-06-07 18:29:23) > > Hi All, > > > > I had a question about VCM subdev (media entity). The example VCM > > drivers have no pads. How do we attach them to the image sensor subdev > > in the pipeline ? > > This requires a bit of support that was added fairly recently for > managing non-data links between subdevices. This was added through the > use of 'ancillary links' which can connect a sensor and a VCM. > > It should be handled automatically if you're on the latest kernel > version, but if not you would perhaps need to back-port the > implementation. I believe it's handled automatically through the async > subdevice notifier systems. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Karthik Poduval > > -- > Kieran -- Regards, Karthik Poduval