Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] media: ivsc: Improve Kconfig help text

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Hi Laurent,

On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 01:09:51PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Sakari,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 10:40:59AM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > Improve the Kconfig help text to convey the ACE is for changing camera
> > sensor ownership and CSI for configuring the CSI-2 rx and tx.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > since v1:
> > 
> > - Reworded most of the help text.
> > 
> >  drivers/media/pci/intel/ivsc/Kconfig | 12 +++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/intel/ivsc/Kconfig b/drivers/media/pci/intel/ivsc/Kconfig
> > index 9535ac10f4f7..ec4ade92f583 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/pci/intel/ivsc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/intel/ivsc/Kconfig
> > @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ config INTEL_VSC
> >  	help
> >  	  This adds support for Intel Visual Sensing Controller (IVSC).
> >  
> > -	  Enables the IVSC firmware services required for controlling
> > -	  camera sensor ownership and CSI-2 link through Image Processing
> > -	  Unit(IPU) driver of Intel.
> > +	  The IVSC support is split into two devices, ACE (Algorithm
> > +	  Context Engine) and CSI (Camera Serial Interface), each of which
> > +	  have their own drivers. The ACE is used to select the ownership
> > +	  of the sensor between the IVSC and the host CPU while the CSI is
> > +	  used to both select the routing destination for the data the
> > +	  sensor transmits over the CSI-2 bus between the IVSC and the
> > +	  host CPU and to configure the CSI-2 bus itself.
> > +
> > +	  The modules will be called ivsc-ace and ivsc-csi.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Side question though: as those two modules are always used together,
> could they be squashed into a single module ?

It's uncommon to have multiple drivers in a single module. I'd keep them
separate, even if you wouldn't use one without the other.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus



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