[PATCH] media: mx1_camera: Remove driver

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Mon May 12 07:25:34 PDT 2014


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 06:18:00PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> Mon, 12 May 2014 22:09:34 +0800 от Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>:
> > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:09:11AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > That driver hasn't been really maintained for a long time. It doesn't
> > > compile in any way, it includes non-existent headers, has no users,
> > > and marked as "broken" more than year. Due to these factors, mx1_camera
> > > is now removed from the tree.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work at mail.ru>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/mach-imx/Makefile                      |   3 -
> > >  arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/Kconfig               |   3 -
> > >  arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/Makefile              |   1 -
> > >  arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/devices-common.h      |  10 -
> > >  arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-mx1-camera.c |  42 --
> > >  arch/arm/mach-imx/mx1-camera-fiq-ksym.c         |  18 -
> > >  arch/arm/mach-imx/mx1-camera-fiq.S              |  35 -
> > >  drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/Kconfig       |  13 -
> > >  drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/Makefile      |   1 -
> > >  drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/mx1_camera.c  | 866 ------------------------
> > >  include/linux/platform_data/camera-mx1.h        |  35 -
> > >  11 files changed, 1027 deletions(-)
> > >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-mx1-camera.c
> > >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-imx/mx1-camera-fiq-ksym.c
> > >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-imx/mx1-camera-fiq.S
> > >  delete mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/mx1_camera.c
> > >  delete mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/camera-mx1.h
> > 
> > Can this patch be split into arch and driver part?  Recently, arm-soc
> > folks do not want to have arch changes go via driver tree, unless that's
> > absolutely necessary.
> 
> Can this patch be applied through arm-soc (imx) tree if it will be approved
> by the linux-media maintainers?

Yes, it can, if linux-media maintainers want.  But I still prefer to two
patches, since I do not see any thing requiring it be one.  Doing that
will ensure we do not run into any merge conflicts.

Shawn



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