* Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl> [160617 00:07]: > Hi Janusz, > > On 06/16/2016 07:21 PM, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > > As requested by media subsystem maintainers, here is an attempt to > > convert the omap1_camera driver to the vb2 framework. Also, conversion > > to the dmaengine framework, long awaited by ARM/OMAP maintainers, is > > done.
Janusz, thanks for updating to the dmaengine :) > > Next, I'm going to approach removal of soc-camera dependency. Please > > let me know how much time I have for that, i.e., when the soc-camera > > framework is going to be depreciated. > > Well, it is already deprecated (i.e. new drivers cannot use it), but it won't > be removed any time soon. There are still drivers depending on it, and some > aren't easy to rewrite. > > I have to say that it is totally unexpected to see that this omap1 driver is > still > used. In fact, we've already merged a patch that removed it for the upcoming > 4.8 kernel. Based on this new development I'll revert that for the omap1 > driver. > > Out of curiosity: is supporting the Amstrad Delta something you do as a hobby > or are there other reasons? Hmm if that IP old phone works fine with mainline kernel, why not keep using it? :) > A final note: once you've managed to drop the soc-camera dependency you should > run the v4l2-compliance test over the video node > (https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/). > > If that passes without failures, then this driver is in good shape and can be > moved out of staging again. Sounds good to me also, thanks guys. Tony _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
