[PATCH v4 05/10] s5p-fimc: Add device tree based sensors registration

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Feb 6 18:42:24 EST 2013


On 02/01/2013 12:09 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> The sensor (I2C and/or SPI client) devices are instantiated by their
> corresponding control bus drivers. Since the I2C client's master clock
> is often provided by a video bus receiver (host interface) or other
> than I2C/SPI controller device, the drivers of those client devices
> are not accessing hardware in their driver's probe() callback. Instead,
> after enabling clock, the host driver calls back into a sub-device
> when it wants to activate them. This pattern is used by some in-tree
> drivers and this patch also uses it for DT case. This patch is intended
> as a first step for adding device tree support to the S5P/Exynos SoC
> camera drivers. The second one is adding support for asynchronous
> sub-devices registration and clock control from sub-device driver
> level. The bindings shall not change when asynchronous probing support
> is added.

> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/soc/samsung-fimc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/soc/samsung-fimc.txt

> +The sensor device nodes should be added as their control bus controller

I think "as" should be "to"?

> +(e.g. I2C0) child nodes and linked to a port node in the csis or parallel-ports
> +node, using common the common video interfaces bindings, i.e. port/endpoint
> +node pairs. The implementation of this binding requires clock-frequency
> +property to be present in the sensor device nodes.



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