[PATCH v7 21/24] arm64: defconfig: disable deprecated MAX96712 driver

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Tue Oct 13 03:24:13 PDT 2026


Hi Cosmin,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 at 17:33, Cosmin Tanislav <demonsingur at gmail.com> wrote:
> The staging MAX96712 driver will be removed as its functionality has
> been moved to the MAX96724 driver which makes use of the Maxim
> GMSL2/3 deserializer framework.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cosmin Tanislav <demonsingur at gmail.com>

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit e8d5a57e6d0ce827 ("arm64:
defconfig: disable deprecated MAX96712 driver") in media/master.

> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> @@ -1300,7 +1300,6 @@ CONFIG_GREYBUS=m
>  CONFIG_GREYBUS_BEAGLEPLAY=m
>  CONFIG_STAGING=y
>  CONFIG_STAGING_MEDIA=y
> -CONFIG_VIDEO_MAX96712=m

As Niklas has already pointed out in a reply to v5, you forgot to enable
the replacement CONFIG_VIDEO_MAX96724, thus breaking operation.

>  CONFIG_VIDEO_MESON_VDEC=m
>  CONFIG_SND_BCM2835=m
>  CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS=y

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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