From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Schäfer" <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, hdegoede@redhat.com
Subject: Re: How to add support for the em2765 webcam Speedlink VAD Laplace to the kernel ?
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:45:09 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121006114509.25f07106@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121006085624.128f7f2c@redhat.com>
Em Sat, 6 Oct 2012 08:56:24 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> escreveu:
> > Unfortunately, lots of changes to the ov2640 driver would be necessary
> > use it. It starts with the init sequence and continues with a long
> > sequence of sensor register writes at capturing start.
> > My hope was, that the differences can be neglected, but unfortunately
> > this is not the case.
> > Given the amount of work, the fact that most of these registers are
> > undocumented and the high risk to break things for other users of the
> > driver, I think we should stay with the "custom" code for this webcam at
> > least for the moment.
>
> Well, then do a new ov2640 i2c driver. We can later try to merge both, if
> we can get enough spec data.
Just to be clearer here: we should only fork ov2640 if we can't find a way
to re-use the existing driver. Forked drivers are always a maintenance
headache.
Cheers,
Mauro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-06 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-20 11:41 How to add support for the em2765 webcam Speedlink VAD Laplace to the kernel ? Frank Schäfer
2012-08-20 13:02 ` Hans de Goede
2012-08-20 19:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-08-20 20:46 ` Hans de Goede
2012-08-20 21:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-08-21 11:35 ` Frank Schäfer
2012-08-21 12:32 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-08-21 16:04 ` Frank Schäfer
2012-08-21 17:29 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-08-22 7:53 ` Frank Schäfer
2012-08-22 18:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-08-26 18:53 ` Frank Schäfer
2012-09-23 14:03 ` Frank Schäfer
2012-10-06 11:56 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-06 14:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2012-10-07 2:56 ` Devin Heitmueller
2012-10-07 13:53 ` Frank Schäfer
2012-10-07 13:41 ` Frank Schäfer
2012-10-07 16:08 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-10-08 19:45 ` Frank Schäfer
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