Re: [PATCH 0/7] Support of MIPI CSI-2 for A83T and OV8865 camera

["Kévin L'hôpital" <kevin.lhopital@bootlin.com>]

Le Mon, 24 Aug 2020 18:52:44 +0200,
Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 04:59:28PM +0200, Kévin L'hôpital wrote:
> > 
> > Kévin L'hôpital (7):
> >   media: sun6i-csi: Fix the bpp for 10-bit bayer formats
> >   dt-bindings: media: i2c: Add documentation for ov8865
> >   media: i2c: Add support for the OV8865 image sensor
> >   media: sunxi: sun6i-csi: Move the sun6i_csi_dev structure to the
> >     common header
> >   media: sunxi: sun6i-csi: Add support of MIPI CSI-2 for A83T
> >   ARM: dts: sun8i: a83t: Add support for the MIPI CSI-2 in CSI node
> >   [NOT FOR MERGE] ARM: dts: sun8i: a83t: bananapi-m3: Enable OV8865
> >     camera  
> 
> You should have a cover letter here to provide some context.
> 
> There's a bunch of things that would need to be explained and / or
> argued for here, in particular:
>   - Why did you need to plumb it into sun6i-csi?
>   - You're naming the CSI part as the A83t CSI, while MIPI-CSI has
> been supported since the A31(?), is there a reason for that?
>   - This is not documented anywhere, what did you base this work on?
> 
> Also, I think that documenting the general challenges you faced (which
> were likely because of the first bullet point above) and how you
> solved them here would be great to start a discussion if needed.
> 
> Finally, iirc, Hans requires a v4l2-compliance run for any new driver,
> which isn't strictly the case for this driver, but isn't really *not*
> the case either.
> 
> Maxime

Thank you very much for the review, I will add all this context.

Kévin


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