[PATCH 10/14] media: soc-camera: support OF cameras

[Barry Song]

Hi Guennadi,

2013/4/8 Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>:
> Hi Barry
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Barry Song wrote:
>
>> hi Guennadi,
>>
>> 2012/9/27 Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>:
>> > With OF we aren't getting platform data any more. To minimise changes we
>> > create all the missing data ourselves, including compulsory struct
>> > soc_camera_link objects. Host-client linking is now done, based on the OF
>> > data. Media bus numbers also have to be assigned dynamically.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>
>>
>> as your V4L2 core DT based supports
>> [media] Add a V4L2 OF parser
>> [media] Add common video interfaces OF bindings documentation
>> have been in media_tree queue for 3.10. i do care about the status of
>> this patch for soc_camera.
>>
>> will you have a plan to resend these soc-camera patches based on your
>> final V4L2 core DT patches? otherwise, we might do some jobs for that.
>
> This patch depends not only on the above two OF patches, that Sylwester
> kindly polished to make them finally suitable for the mainline :-), but
> also on V4L2 (temporary) clock and asynchronous probing patches, which
> I've just re-posted in their v7. Once those patches stabilise, it will be
> possible to re-spin this patch too. However, currently I don't have any
> interested users for this work, so I can only run it as a low priority
> task in my spare time, of which I don't have much.

as we are considering putting CSR SiRFprimaII/SiRFatlas6/SiRFmarco
soc_camera based drivers in drivers/media/platform/soc_camera, so we
might become your real user. Old imx, omap users might have lost the
loop.
I will take a careful at all these patches and find the way to make
the things happen faster.

>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
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> Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
> Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
> http://www.open-technology.de/

-barry