[PATCH 12/34] media: mx1_camera: remove the driver

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Wed Sep 19 21:35:09 EDT 2012


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:13:54AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2012, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:33:25AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > Ok, it used to compile not-so-long-ago, but it doesn't seem to be cared 
> > > for a lot lately. Let's give Paulius a bit more time to react to this 
> > > mail, otherwise I'll have no objections. Just as an idea, to make it a bit 
> > > milder we could first mark it BROKEN and add to remove schedule... But I 
> > > don't mind either way.
> > > 
> > I chose to remove the driver completely rather than marking it BROKEN
> > because the removal of the driver cleans up platform code a lot :)
> > 
> > Ok, if we hear anything back from Paulius in the next couple of weeks,
> > I keep the driver there with BROKEN marked.
> 
> Sounds fine to me. Of course, if someone wants the driver back and is
> willing to fix it, we'll just revert this patch even after the driver
> is gone.
> 
> I would like an Ack from Mauro however. You did not Cc him directly
> in the patch, and he probably has an opionion on it as well, or may
> want to take this patch through his git tree.
> 
I've seen Guennadi is collecting camera patches and sending them to
Mauro recently.  So I think Guennadi is someone that Mauro trusts.
But yes, we should copy him directly to see if he has an opionion on
this driver removal.

Shawn



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