Re: [PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable USB Video Class support

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>]

[adding Bartlomiej to cc]

Hello Krzysztof,

On 09/08/2015 10:11 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 08.09.2015 06:45, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> The Exynos5420 Peach Pit and Exynos5800 Peach Pi boards have a built-in
>> Silicon Motion USB UVC WebCam. Enable support for the USB Video Class
>> driver and its needed media Kconfig symbols so the camera is supported.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> The patch itself looks good but now I wonder whether we are not putting
> to much stuff built-in. The exynos_defconfig does not replace the
> distribution distro. For a fully working board the distro should prepare
> it's own config.
>

Agreed that exynos_defconfig is not meant to replace a distro config.

> I understand that in this case the USB webcams are parts of device (like
> on all laptops)... a little bit similar as camera sensors on mobile
> phones. Yet on mobile phone usually the camera itself is part of SoC,
> only the sensor is external.
> 
> Actually what we need is a kind of policy for exynos_defconfig - what
> should be inside as built-in and what as module?
>

I had the same conversation with Bartlomiej before in [0] when I tried to
enable the SBS battery driver as module. I save you a click and quote him:

"the current most popular use case for exynos_defconfig
(not multi_v7_defconfig) seems to be to build kernel image
alone and use it without any modules"

Which seems to be true, so my understanding is that exynos_defconfig is a
minimal defconfig for Exynos platforms and for easy of test/use, everything
should be built-in while multi_v7_defconfig would be more similar to a conf
used by distros where most things would be built as a module when possible.

Other SoC specific deconfig do it differently, OMAP for example does the
opposite and tries to build as much stuff as possible as a module.

> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 
>

[0]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-August/278757.html

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America