Passing camera module type using "camera" argument.

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Javier,

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 12:16:16 javier Martin wrote:
> On 22 August 2011 18:15, Koen Kooi <koen at beagleboard.org> wrote:
> > Op 22 aug. 2011, om 08:42 heeft javier Martin het volgende geschreven:
> > > On 19 August 2011 17:07, Koen Kooi <koen at beagleboard.org> wrote:
> > > Op 19 aug. 2011 om 14:39 heeft javier Martin het volgende geschreven:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I've been digging into the code of linux-omap kernel in Angstrom for
> > >> Beagleboard and I've noticed there is an argument called "camera" which
> > >> can be passed to the kernel. This allows telling the linux kernel what
> > >> camera module is actually connected to the platform.
> > >>
> > >> However, when I look the mainline kernel 3.0 I see those changed have
> > >> not yet made into it. Is this mechanism accepted by the community?
> > >
> > > When I asked a few months ago the consensus was that there currently is
> > > no better way. DT might solve it, but that's still some time away
> > >
> > > So, as I understand, using a command line argument for this purpose is
> > > the preferred way by the community but, at the same time, they won't
> > > accept patches that implement this approach.
> > 
> > From what I understood a patch doing that wouldn't be rejected, but
> > Laurent/Tony would have to chime in to confirm that.
> 
> Ok,
> I add to Laurent and Tony to CC to see what is their opinion on this.

I won't reject a patch that implements this (provided that it's clean enough 
of course :-)), but I'm really not sure if it's worth it. I think we should 
work on DT support instead.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart