[ANN] Meeting minutes of the Cambourne meeting

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

[snip]

> My idea was to let the kernel register all devices based on the DT or board 
> code. When the V4L2 host/bridge driver gets registered, it will then call a 
> V4L2 core function with a list of subdevs it needs. The V4L2 core would store 
> that information and react to bus notifier events to notify the V4L2 
> host/bridge driver when all subdevs are present. At that point the host/bridge 
> driver will get hold of all the subdevs and call (probably through the V4L2 
> core) their .registered operation. That's where the subdevs will get access to 
> their clock using clk_get().

Correct me, if I'm wrong, but this seems to be the case of sensor (and 
other i2c-client) drivers having to succeed their probe() methods without 
being able to actually access the hardware?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
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