Hi Guennadi, (CC'ing Ludovic Desroches) On Monday 22 February 2016 14:39:08 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > [snip] > > > As far as I know Renesas (or at least the kernel upstream team) doesn't > > care. The driver is only used on five SH boards, I'd also say it can be > > removed. > [snip] > > >>>> - atmel-isi: ATMEL Image Sensor Interface (ISI) > >>>> > >>>> I believe this is still actively maintained. Would someone be > >>>> willing to convert this? It doesn't look like a complex driver. > > > > That would be nice, I would like to avoid dropping this one. > > Thanks for clarifying the state of the CEU driver. I did say, that I am > fine with dropping soc-camera gradually, and I stay with that. But I see > now, that at least two drivers want to stay active: Atmel ISI and PXA270. > One possibility is of course to make them independent drivers. If people > are prepared to invest work into that - sure, would be great! If we > however decide to keep soc-camera, I could propose the following: IIUC, > the largest problem is sensor drivers, that cannot be reused for other > non-soc-camera bridge drivers. The thing is, out of all the sensor drivers > currently under drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera only a couple are in use on > those active PXA270 and Atmel boards. I could propose the following: > > 1. Remove all bridge drivers, that noone cares about. > 2. If anyone ever needs to use any of soc-camera-associated sensor > drivers, take them out of soc-camera and _remove_ any soc-camera > dependencies > 3. If any soc-camera boards will need that specific driver, which in > itself is already unlikely, we'll have to fix that by teaching > soc-camera to work with generic sensor drivers! That sounds like a good plan. Ludovic, any chance someone at Atmel could convert the ISI driver ? -- 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
