Re: Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge

Pavel Machek
2009-09-09T08:10:51Z

On Mon 2009-09-07 20:12:05, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Sun, 6 Sep 2009 07:28:19 +0200
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> escreveu:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > > Note, Pavel has been adding some of the Dream hardware
> > > drivers, which are separate from the core Android drivers. I
> > > have no objection to those, but they should work to get merged
> > > to their "correct" places in the tree in another release or
> > > so.
> >
> > Well, some of those drivers should be moderately easy (touchscreen),
> > but some (camera) will take longer than that. For example camera --
> > contains _lots_ of code, and uses obsolete v4l api.
>
> The usage of the obsolete V4L API is a problem since we aren't accepting any
> drivers with the old API for a long time, doing large efforts to convert the
> few remaining ones to V4L2 API.

Understood.

> This probably means also that they are not using the current V4L framework. Are
> they already somewhere at the staging tree?

It will appear in drivers/staging/dream/camera in 2.6.32 or so. It
should be in -next by now.
Pavel
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