Hi Laurent On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Guennadi, > > Thanks for the patch. > > On Tuesday 04 December 2012 11:42:15 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Typical video devices like camera sensors require an external clock source. > > Many such devices cannot even access their hardware registers without a > > running clock. These clock sources should be controlled by their consumers. > > This should be performed, using the generic clock framework. Unfortunately > > so far only very few systems have been ported to that framework. This patch > > adds a set of temporary helpers, mimicking the generic clock API, to V4L2. > > Platforms, adopting the clock API, should switch to using it. Eventually > > this temporary API should be removed. > > As discussed on Jabber, I think we should make the clock helpers use the > common clock framework when available, to avoid pushing support for the two > APIs to all sensor drivers. Do you plan to include that in v4 ? :-) AAMOF, no, I don't. Originally I planned to add this only when the first user appears. We can also add it earlier - a test case could be hacked up pretty quickly. But in either case I'd prefer to have it as a separate patch. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- 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
