Re: adv7180 as SoC camera device

[Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:11:18PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> 
> The long-term goal is to remove the last soc-camera API dependencies from
> the sensor subdev drivers. Subdevice (usually i2c) drivers should be fully
> reusable and a dependency on soc-camera defeats that goal.
> 
> I think the only missing piece is low-level bus setup (i.e. sync polarities,
> rising/falling edge sampling, etc.). Some proposals were made, but basically
> nobody has had the time to actually implement this.
> 
> Right now, if you want to use your sensor with soc-camera, then you need to
> support the soc-camera API (or what is left of it) in your subdev driver as
> well.

But with the goal to remove the last soc-camera API dependencies I
suppose is better I try to change the pxa_camera driver in something
compatible with the API of the adv7180 driver...

I'm sorry but I'm a bit confused. :)

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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