Re: [PATCH] soc_camera/omap1: move to staging in preparation for removal

Hans Verkuil
2016-02-23T16:09:58Z

On 02/23/2016 05:03 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>
>> On 02/23/2016 04:05 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/23/16 15:55, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>>>>> Hi Hans,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This driver is deprecated: it needs to be converted to vb2 and
>>>>>> it should become a stand-alone driver instead of using the
>>>>>> soc-camera framework.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unless someone is willing to take this on (unlikely with such
>>>>>> ancient hardware) it is going to be removed from the kernel
>>>>>> soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess I won't be pulling this through my tree, right?
>>>>
>>>> Right.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> This one was easy.
>>>
>>> mx2, mx3 should be easy too?
>>
>> Sure. Are you certain these can be deprecated? I haven't heard
>> anything regarding the status of these driver. You probably know that
>> best.
>>
>> If you give me the go ahead, then I'll prepare patches for these to
>> move them to staging.
>
> I asked pengutronix guys, they don't care about them any more. We had
> someone from freescale on CC in the original discussion, they didn't
> report back either, so... Up to you really, I'd put the probability of
> someone coming forward with a strong enough case to keep them at 4% :-) Is
> it good enough for you to prepare that patch?

Yes, that's good enough. It's not as if we remove it right away, it'll be
in staging for a while.

Thanks for the info,

Hans