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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] media: V4L2: add temporary clock helpers
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:24:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1885008.m7crYYR2Uy@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1212041136250.26918@axis700.grange>

Hi Guennadi,

Thanks for the patch.

On Tuesday 04 December 2012 11:42:15 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Typical video devices like camera sensors require an external clock source.
> Many such devices cannot even access their hardware registers without a
> running clock. These clock sources should be controlled by their consumers.
> This should be performed, using the generic clock framework. Unfortunately
> so far only very few systems have been ported to that framework. This patch
> adds a set of temporary helpers, mimicking the generic clock API, to V4L2.
> Platforms, adopting the clock API, should switch to using it. Eventually
> this temporary API should be removed.

As discussed on Jabber, I think we should make the clock helpers use the 
common clock framework when available, to avoid pushing support for the two 
APIs to all sensor drivers. Do you plan to include that in v4 ? :-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-06  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-04 10:42 [PATCH v3] media: V4L2: add temporary clock helpers Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-12-06  1:24 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2012-12-06  7:41   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-12-06 10:13     ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-01-08 18:59 ` Sylwester Nawrocki

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