[PATCH v8 20/34] media: imx: Add a TODO file
From: slongerbeam@gmail.com (Steve Longerbeam)
Date: 2017-06-07 18:39:51
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linux-devicetree, linux-media, lkml
Subsystem:
media drivers for freescale imx, media input infrastructure (v4l/dvb), staging subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Steve Longerbeam, Philipp Zabel, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds
Add a TODO file. Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <redacted> --- drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bee313
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + +- Clean up and move the ov5642 subdev driver to drivers/media/i2c, or + merge support for OV5642 into drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c, and create + the binding docs for it. + +- The Frame Interval Monitor could be exported to v4l2-core for + general use. + +- At driver load time, the device-tree node that is the original source + (the "sensor"), is parsed to record its media bus configuration, and + this info is required in imx-media-csi.c to setup the CSI. + Laurent Pinchart argues that instead the CSI subdev should call its + neighbor's g_mbus_config op (which should be propagated if necessary) + to get this info. However Hans Verkuil is planning to remove the + g_mbus_config op. For now this driver uses the parsed DT mbus config + method until this issue is resolved. + +- This media driver supports inheriting V4L2 controls to the + video capture devices, from the subdevices in the capture device's + pipeline. The controls for each capture device are updated in the + link_notify callback when the pipeline is modified. It should be + decided whether this feature is useful enough to make it generally + available by exporting to v4l2-core.
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