On 12/13/2013 12:29 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote: > Hi Hans, > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:26:33PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> The omap24xx driver and the tcm825x sensor driver are the only two >> remaining drivers to still use the old deprecated v4l2-int-device API. >> >> Nobody maintains these drivers anymore. But unfortunately the v4l2-int-device >> API is used by out-of-tree drivers (MXC platform). This is a very bad situation >> since as long as this deprecated API stays in the kernel there is no reason for >> those out-of-tree drivers to convert. >> >> This patch moves v4l2-int-device and the two drivers that depend on it to >> staging in preparation for their removal. > > Do you think we should move these to staging instead of removing them right > away? These drivers have never been in a usable state in the mainline > kernel due to missing platform data. Currently they suffer from other > problems, too. I'd be surprised if they compile. They do compile, they are part of my daily build. > > If I wanted to get them working again I'd start with this since it's not > very far from the state where they used to work: > > <URL:http://vihersipuli.retiisi.org.uk/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=~sailus/linux-omap/.git;a=summary> > > The branch is n800-cam . Porting to up-to-date APIs can then be done, and I > think David did some work to that end. > I think I prefer to keep them in staging for at least one kernel release (3.14) and drop them in 3.15. Although if the consensus is to just drop them, then I won't object :-) Regards, Hans -- 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
