From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752734AbZIIIKv (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:10:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751996AbZIIIKu (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:10:50 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:52024 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751394AbZIIIKt (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:10:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:10:45 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Greg KH , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, swetland@google.com Subject: Re: Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge Message-ID: <20090909081045.GA28615@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090903041429.GA29875@kroah.com> <20090906052819.GE1324@ucw.cz> <20090907201205.23173985@caramujo.chehab.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090907201205.23173985@caramujo.chehab.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon 2009-09-07 20:12:05, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Sun, 6 Sep 2009 07:28:19 +0200 > Pavel Machek escreveu: > > > Hi! > > > > > Note, Pavel has been adding some of the Dream hardware > > > drivers, which are separate from the core Android drivers. I > > > have no objection to those, but they should work to get merged > > > to their "correct" places in the tree in another release or > > > so. > > > > Well, some of those drivers should be moderately easy (touchscreen), > > but some (camera) will take longer than that. For example camera -- > > contains _lots_ of code, and uses obsolete v4l api. > > The usage of the obsolete V4L API is a problem since we aren't accepting any > drivers with the old API for a long time, doing large efforts to convert the > few remaining ones to V4L2 API. Understood. > This probably means also that they are not using the current V4L framework. Are > they already somewhere at the staging tree? It will appear in drivers/staging/dream/camera in 2.6.32 or so. It should be in -next by now. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html