From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from lb1-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net ([194.109.24.24]:48498 "EHLO lb1-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751809AbcBWQJ6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:09:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc_camera/omap1: move to staging in preparation for removal To: Guennadi Liakhovetski References: <56CC4CD0.7050308@xs4all.nl> <56CC73B7.6070804@xs4all.nl> <56CC8125.60205@xs4all.nl> Cc: linux-media , Sakari Ailus From: Hans Verkuil Message-ID: <56CC8451.5080909@xs4all.nl> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:09:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 >>>>> >>>>> I guess I won't be pulling this through my tree, right? >>>> >>>> Right. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski >>>> >>>> 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