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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	seanpaul@google.com, daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, joshi@samsung.com,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	ajaynumb@gmail.com, prashanth.g@samsung.com,
	Ajay Kumar <ajaykumar.rs@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 11/12] Documentation: bridge: Add documentation for ps8622 DT properties
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:49:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140923144937.GG5982@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2238934.uLuAbtBXFj@avalon>


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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 02:52:24PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2014 13:47:40 Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > On 09/23/2014 01:23 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
[...]
> > > This becomes an issue even on Linux when considering video-related devices
> > > that can be part of either a capture pipeline or a display pipeline. If
> > > the link always goes in the data flow direction, then it will be easy to
> > > locate the downstream device (bridge or panel) from the display controller
> > > driver, but it would be much more difficult to locate the same device from
> > > a camera driver as all of a sudden the device would become an upstream
> > > device.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > If you have graph:
> > sensor --> camera
> > 
> > Then camera register itself in some framework as a destination device
> > and sensor looks in this framework for the device identified by remote
> > endpoint.
> > Then sensor tells camera it is connected to it and voila.
> 
> Except that both kernelspace and userspace deal with cameras the other way 
> around, the master device is the camera receiver, not the camera sensor. DRM 
> is architected the same way, with the component that performs DMA operations 
> being the master device.

I don't see what's wrong with having the camera reference the sensor by
phandle instead. That's much more natural in my opinion.

Thierry

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Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-27 14:39 [PATCH V7 11/12] Documentation: bridge: Add documentation for ps8622 DT properties Ajay Kumar
2014-08-27 14:39 ` [PATCH V7 10/12] Documentation: devicetree: Add vendor prefix for parade Ajay Kumar
2014-08-27 14:39 ` [PATCH V7 09/12] Documentation: drm: bridge: move to video/bridge Ajay Kumar
2014-09-17 11:52 ` [PATCH V7 11/12] Documentation: bridge: Add documentation for ps8622 DT properties Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-17 14:29   ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-17 16:22     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-18  5:50       ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-19 12:54         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-19 13:59           ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-19 14:28             ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-20 11:22               ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-20 15:27                 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-22  6:00                   ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-22 15:05                   ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-07 10:30                 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-07 10:36                   ` Ajay kumar
2014-10-07 14:49                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-08  7:09                       ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-10 13:03                         ` Ajay kumar
2014-10-16  8:23                           ` Ajay kumar
2014-10-16  9:04                           ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-28  9:12                             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-10-28 11:12                               ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-22  8:26               ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 14:42                 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23  5:53                   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23  8:41                     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23  9:28                       ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 11:15                         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23 14:29                           ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 15:25                             ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-22  8:10         ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22  8:31           ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-22 10:41             ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 11:23               ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-22 11:35                 ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 12:12                   ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-23  0:00                   ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-23  5:55                     ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23  6:11                       ` Ajay kumar
2014-09-23  6:28                         ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 11:47                       ` DT property to selectively disable device features (was [PATCH V7 11/12] Documentation: bridge: Add documentation for ps8622 DT properties) Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-22  8:06       ` [PATCH V7 11/12] Documentation: bridge: Add documentation for ps8622 DT properties Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 14:23         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23  6:04           ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23  7:24             ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23  8:35               ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23  9:40                 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23 10:01                   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 12:09                     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23 14:38                       ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 15:33                         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23  9:43                 ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 10:10                   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 10:34                     ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 14:41                       ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-24  7:11                         ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-24  8:27                         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23 11:33                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-23  8:54             ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23  9:39               ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 11:31                 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23 14:45                   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-24  8:42                     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-06 14:40                       ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-07  7:06                         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-07  7:23                           ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-07  8:25                             ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-07 16:14                               ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-22  7:54   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 14:04     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23  6:21       ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23  9:30         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23  9:53           ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 11:12             ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-23 14:50               ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23 12:00             ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-23 14:58               ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-24  9:08                 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-09-25  6:23                   ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-06 11:34                     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-06 13:55                       ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-23 10:02           ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 10:02           ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 11:10             ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-23 11:18               ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 11:23                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-23 11:47                   ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 11:52                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-23 12:40                       ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 12:40                       ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-09-23 14:49                       ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2014-10-06 14:38                         ` Laurent Pinchart

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