On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/09/2011 04:19 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: > > According to Theodore, we have developed 5 drivers for them because the > > stillcam modes in different devices use four different vendor-specific > > drivers. > > Yes, but so the the webcam modes of the different devices, so for > the 5 (not sure if that is the right number) dual-cam mode chipsets > we support there will be 5 drivers, each supporting both the > webcam and the access to pictures stored in memory of the chipset > they support. So 5 chipsets -> 5 drivers each supporting 1 chipset, > and both functions of the single logical device that chipset > represents. > > > Does it really make sense to combine 5 drivers into one? > > Right, that is not the plan. The plan is to simply stop having 2 drivers > for 1 logical (and physical) block. So we go from 10 drivers, 5 stillcam > + 5 webcam, to just 5 drivers. We will also likely be able to share > code between the code for the 2 functionalities for things like generic > set / get register functions, initialization, etc. Okay, I didn't realize that the different cameras used different webcam drivers as well as different stillcam drivers. As far as I can see, there's nothing to stop anybody from adding the stillcam functionality into the webcam drivers right now. If some common code can be abstracted out into a shared source file, so much the better. That would solve the problem, right? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
