From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from muru.com ([72.249.23.125]:56590 "EHLO muru.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933404AbcFQKDL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 06:03:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:03:07 -0700 From: Tony Lindgren To: Hans Verkuil Cc: Janusz Krzysztofik , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Guennadi Liakhovetski , Amitoj Kaur Chawla , Arnd Bergmann , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] media: an attempt to refresh omap1_camera driver Message-ID: <20160617100307.GE22406@atomide.com> References: <1466097694-8660-1-git-send-email-jmkrzyszt@gmail.com> <5763A114.2080309@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5763A114.2080309@xs4all.nl> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Hans Verkuil [160617 00:07]: > Hi Janusz, > > On 06/16/2016 07:21 PM, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > > As requested by media subsystem maintainers, here is an attempt to > > convert the omap1_camera driver to the vb2 framework. Also, conversion > > to the dmaengine framework, long awaited by ARM/OMAP maintainers, is > > done. Janusz, thanks for updating to the dmaengine :) > > Next, I'm going to approach removal of soc-camera dependency. Please > > let me know how much time I have for that, i.e., when the soc-camera > > framework is going to be depreciated. > > Well, it is already deprecated (i.e. new drivers cannot use it), but it won't > be removed any time soon. There are still drivers depending on it, and some > aren't easy to rewrite. > > I have to say that it is totally unexpected to see that this omap1 driver is still > used. In fact, we've already merged a patch that removed it for the upcoming > 4.8 kernel. Based on this new development I'll revert that for the omap1 > driver. > > Out of curiosity: is supporting the Amstrad Delta something you do as a hobby > or are there other reasons? Hmm if that IP old phone works fine with mainline kernel, why not keep using it? :) > A final note: once you've managed to drop the soc-camera dependency you should > run the v4l2-compliance test over the video node (https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/). > > If that passes without failures, then this driver is in good shape and can be > moved out of staging again. Sounds good to me also, thanks guys. Tony