Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver

Laurent Pinchart
2023-08-24T13:34:44Z

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 03:08:33PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 08:23:33PM +0800, Jack Zhu wrote:
> > On 2023/8/24 19:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 04:01:01PM +0800, Jack Zhu wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> This series is the v8 series that attempts to support the Camera Subsystem
> > >> found on StarFive JH7110 SoC.
> > >
> > > I don't see anything here about why this is in drivers/staging/media/
> > > now and not just in drivers/media/. What is preventing this to be put
> > > into the correct place to start with? What needs to be done to the code
> > > to get it out of drivers/staging/media/ and who is going to do that
> > > work?
> >
> > The series does not contain 3A interface. According to Laurent's suggestion,
> > we put the driver in the staging directory first. In the next stage, we will
> > continue to submit the 3A interface in the way of incremental development,
> > and finally expect the code to be placed in the drivers/media/.
>
> Can you please say that in the changelog text for when you are adding
> the driver so that we know this?

It's also customary to add a TODO file in the driver directory to list
the work needed before moving the code to drivers/media/. Jack, could
you please do so ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart