On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 04:23:54PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > 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 ? I add Songjun to the cc list. I think he has in mind to do this conversion. Songjun, can you confirm? Full thread here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/99290 Regards Ludovic -- 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
