On (22/08/11 17:30), Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 06:08:55PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 05:02:40PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 04:54:53PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > For the time being, I agree with your recommendation to not buy these > > > > devices if you care about camera support. > > > > > > I second this, don't buy these devices if the vendor is not willing to > > > get their drivers upstreamed properly. > > > > "Not willing" may be a bit too harsh here. I wouldn't just blame Intel > > for not upstreaming a driver if it turns out that the V4L2 API isn't a > > good match and we have no proposal to provide an alternative. > > Did they propose an alternative? From what I saw here they didn't even > attempt it, or did I miss that? The plan here is to land CAM kernel API first and then switch IPU (driver and user-space) to it so that upstreaming for Intel will be easier.
