Re: [RFC] Move some soc-camera drivers to staging in preparation for removal

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

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