linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] media: staging: Drop bcm2835-camera driver

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Message-ID: <20250827124803.GH5650@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:48:03 +0200
From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To: Jai Luthra <jai.luthra@...asonboard.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
	Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>, Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
	linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-list@...pberrypi.com,
	Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@....net>,
	Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@...pberrypi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] media: staging: Drop bcm2835-camera driver

Hi Jai,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:54:11AM +0530, Jai Luthra wrote:
> The bcm2835-camera driver is replaced by the V4L2 bcm2835-unicam driver
> that is already upstream. So drop it from staging.
> 
> This also simplifies destaging of VCHIQ MMAL, by reducing the users of
> the MMAL API (this driver is one of them).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jai Luthra <jai.luthra@...asonboard.com>

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>

> ---
>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig              |    2 -
>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/Makefile             |    1 -
>  .../staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/Kconfig   |   13 -
>  .../staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/Makefile  |    6 -
>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/TODO  |   17 -
>  .../vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c  | 2012 --------------------
>  .../vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.h  |  142 --
>  .../vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/controls.c        | 1399 --------------
>  8 files changed, 3592 deletions(-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart