[PATCH 5/7] mach-pxa: palmz72/pcm990: remove soc_camera dependencies

Robert Jarzmik robert.jarzmik at free.fr
Sat Jul 11 15:44:49 EDT 2020


Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 1:53 PM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> The soc_camera driver is about to be removed, so drop camera
>> support from this board. Note that the soc_camera driver itself has
>> long since been deprecated and can't be compiled anymore (it depends
>> on BROKEN), so camera support on this board has been broken for a long
>> time (at least since 4.9 when the pxa_camera.c was removed from soc_camera).
>>
>> Note that there is a new pxa_camera.c driver that replaced the old
>> soc_camera based driver, but using that would require these boards to
>> be converted to use the device tree.
This statement is not accurate, pxa_camera should be working in platform_data
based boards, it's just that the solution to make it work was not found yet if I
remember correctly, since the evolutions to the clocking in v4l2 hit it.

> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> Please merge this through the media tree if there are no objections.
So be it.

--
Robert



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