[PATCH v3 22/24] media: imx: Add MIPI CSI-2 OV5640 sensor subdev driver

Steve Longerbeam slongerbeam at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 19:31:20 PST 2017



On 01/30/2017 03:29 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 06:11:40PM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
>> +config IMX_OV5640_MIPI
>> +       tristate "OmniVision OV5640 MIPI CSI-2 camera support"
>> +       depends on GPIOLIB && VIDEO_IMX_CAMERA
>> +       select IMX_MIPI_CSI2
>> +       default y
> Why is this defaulting to y?  New drivers should not default to enabled
> unless they are replacing some already pre-existing functionality.
> Ditto for the other camera driver.

The ov564x sensors are required for the SabreSD and SabreLite/Nitrogen
reference boards (if VIDEO_IMX_CAMERA is enabled that is). But they're not
required for other platforms, so you're right I shouldn't have defaulted 
these
to yes. Fixed.


Steve




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