From: gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ashwin Gundarapu <linuxuser509@zohomail.in>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-staging <linux-staging@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: camera: remove broken camera driver
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:53:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026061519-clammy-marina-6dee@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19e6eb80318.39c60cbc208598.4490466986425288169@zohomail.in>
On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 06:43:33PM +0530, Ashwin Gundarapu wrote:
> The Greybus camera driver has been non-functional since its inclusion
> due to a missing greybus_protocols.h header and reliance on deprecated
> v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum.
>
> The Project Ara hardware this driver was written for never shipped,
> and the driver has seen no real fixes in over 8 years—only treewide
> cleanups such as GFP_KERNEL conversions and debugfs error handling
> changes.
>
> Remove the entire camera driver (~2,000 lines).
>
> Signed-off-by: Ashwin Gundarapu <linuxuser509@zohomail.in>
> ---
> drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c | 1047 ---------------------------
> drivers/staging/greybus/gb-camera.h | 127 ----
> 2 files changed, 1174 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/greybus/gb-camera.h
You forgot to delete this from the build and configuration at the same
time :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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2026-05-28 13:13 [PATCH] staging: greybus: camera: remove broken camera driver Ashwin Gundarapu
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