Em Sat, 6 Oct 2012 08:56:24 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > Unfortunately, lots of changes to the ov2640 driver would be necessary > > use it. It starts with the init sequence and continues with a long > > sequence of sensor register writes at capturing start. > > My hope was, that the differences can be neglected, but unfortunately > > this is not the case. > > Given the amount of work, the fact that most of these registers are > > undocumented and the high risk to break things for other users of the > > driver, I think we should stay with the "custom" code for this webcam at > > least for the moment. > > Well, then do a new ov2640 i2c driver. We can later try to merge both, if > we can get enough spec data. Just to be clearer here: we should only fork ov2640 if we can't find a way to re-use the existing driver. Forked drivers are always a maintenance headache. Cheers, Mauro -- 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
