Hi Javier, On Tuesday 23 August 2011 12:16:16 javier Martin wrote: > On 22 August 2011 18:15, Koen Kooi <koen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Op 22 aug. 2011, om 08:42 heeft javier Martin het volgende geschreven: > > > On 19 August 2011 17:07, Koen Kooi <koen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Op 19 aug. 2011 om 14:39 heeft javier Martin het volgende geschreven: > > >> Hi, > > >> I've been digging into the code of linux-omap kernel in Angstrom for > > >> Beagleboard and I've noticed there is an argument called "camera" which > > >> can be passed to the kernel. This allows telling the linux kernel what > > >> camera module is actually connected to the platform. > > >> > > >> However, when I look the mainline kernel 3.0 I see those changed have > > >> not yet made into it. Is this mechanism accepted by the community? > > > > > > When I asked a few months ago the consensus was that there currently is > > > no better way. DT might solve it, but that's still some time away > > > > > > So, as I understand, using a command line argument for this purpose is > > > the preferred way by the community but, at the same time, they won't > > > accept patches that implement this approach. > > > > From what I understood a patch doing that wouldn't be rejected, but > > Laurent/Tony would have to chime in to confirm that. > > Ok, > I add to Laurent and Tony to CC to see what is their opinion on this. I won't reject a patch that implements this (provided that it's clean enough of course :-)), but I'm really not sure if it's worth it. I think we should work on DT support instead. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
