Re: ovm6211 linux driver

Petko Manolov
2021-12-03T10:00:05Z

On 21-12-03 10:55:15, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 03/12/2021 10:43, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > Hi Petko,
> >
> > On 03/12/2021 10:08, Petko Manolov wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> On request by certain company we've developed a media driver for
> >> OmniVision's ovm6211 camera sensor. We just got permission to mainline the
> >> code. How shall i proceed?
> >>
> >>
> >> cheers, Petko
> >>
> >
> > You found the correct mailinglist, so that's good :-)
> >
> > This is a good starting page:
> >
> > https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Developer_section
> >
> > Check the 'Kernel driver development' - 'Submitting Your Work:' links.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hans
> >
>
> Actually, this is a better source (for the media-subsystem-specific stuff):
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.html

Thanks for the pointers. Perhaps i should have mentioned that i am already
maintaining several kernel drivers. This is my first 'media' driver and my
question was more in the lines of how you guys are doing it, although i did not
vocalize it explicitly. I assume the above link will give me the bits i still
don't know about.

I'll send the v0 patch shortly.

thanks,
Petko