Hi Guennadi, On Thursday 06 December 2012 08:41:41 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > 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. OK, I'm fine with that. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- 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
