Passing camera module type using "camera" argument.

Hi Javier,

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 12:16:16 javier Martin wrote:

On 22 August 2011 18:15, Koen Kooi [off-list ref] wrote:

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Op 22 aug. 2011, om 08:42 heeft javier Martin het volgende geschreven:

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On 19 August 2011 17:07, Koen Kooi [off-list ref] wrote:
Op 19 aug. 2011 om 14:39 heeft javier Martin het volgende geschreven:

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Hi,
I've been digging into the code of linux-omap kernel in Angstrom for
Beagleboard and I've noticed there is an argument called "camera" which
can be passed to the kernel. This allows telling the linux kernel what
camera module is actually connected to the platform.

However, when I look the mainline kernel 3.0 I see those changed have
not yet made into it. Is this mechanism accepted by the community?

When I asked a few months ago the consensus was that there currently is
no better way. DT might solve it, but that's still some time away

So, as I understand, using a command line argument for this purpose is
the preferred way by the community but, at the same time, they won't
accept patches that implement this approach.

From what I understood a patch doing that wouldn't be rejected, but
Laurent/Tony would have to chime in to confirm that.

Ok,
I add to Laurent and Tony to CC to see what is their opinion on this.

I won't reject a patch that implements this (provided that it's clean enough 
of course :-)), but I'm really not sure if it's worth it. I think we should 
work on DT support instead.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart