Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 May 2010 19:52:51 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 24/30] viafb: Add a driver for the video capture engine |
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On Sun, 02 May 2010 03:18:53 +0200 Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:
> > +config FB_VIA_CAMERA > > + tristate "VIAFB camera controller support" > > + depends on FB_VIA > > + select VIDEOBUF_DMA_SG > > + help > > + Driver support for the integrated camera controller in VIA > > + Chrome9 chipsets. Currently only tested on OLPC xo-1.5 systems > > + with ov7670 sensors. > > + > > Probably this is not the right place for this config option. Even if it > currently depends on the framebuffer having it there is just confusing.
It's the wrong place for the driver as a whole; it needs to move to drivers/media/video, and the configuration option with it. As noted, the camera driver isn't ready for submission yet; that's on a list of about a half-dozen things that need fixing. There's just a bit more stuff to separate to make that move possible.
One other thing to consider is moving via-core, i2c, and gpio to drivers/mfd. It's perhaps a more logical place for it, but I'm not sure there's a lot of value in making that move.
> Additionally you should depend/select some V4L stuff to make the > following compile errors go away:
OK. A half-dozen plus one things to fix.
> Otherwise you can count this patch series as > Acked-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> > Although it is still far away from destination and has its issues but > it's a step forward and delaying it would be probably just frustrating > for both of us.
Thanks for reviewing it!
There are definitely things to fix, and I expect some of them to last past the merge window. But, hopefully, it's progress, and it's very much my intention to continue to make things better.
jon
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