From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A31C25B0E for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S241567AbiHOHSB (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2022 03:18:01 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47024 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S241537AbiHOHRm (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2022 03:17:42 -0400 Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com (perceval.ideasonboard.com [IPv6:2001:4b98:dc2:55:216:3eff:fef7:d647]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CCDB11FCF4; Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pendragon.ideasonboard.com (62-78-145-57.bb.dnainternet.fi [62.78.145.57]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62B604A8; Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:16:03 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1660547763; bh=ICSDU9K7qwcViEnvudwhEwZPF+MenD3Ujks/vSlFlec=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=f2KE1ujQqiX7tepqW60r5VPMd4B1x6CiQUXM93VmaWBYjT2o6dSyzWdSA1ruNB+oX lNDCa8I82CeD7uSqWO7f+0NFHtym43ZaxPmLRu+WAvPwk76ocYZModmAU2QNFAkEGy UOXldnQFEsgX/6DBhQlZBmeqpjZ/UfD+0XXh2d6A= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:15:49 +0300 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Greg KH , Paul Menzel , Wang Yating , Christoph Jechlitschek , Hao Yao , Andy Yeh , Sakari Ailus , Bingbu Cao , Tianshu Qiu , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Mark Pearson , Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck , Andy Whitcroft , Kai-Heng Feng , Christian Schaller , Wouter Bolsterlee , Miguel Palhas , it+linux-media@molgen.mpg.de Subject: Re: Missing MIPI IPU6 camera driver for Intel Alder Lake laptops Message-ID: References: <52c87d91-422d-fca0-4dd5-bbaa559c81b6@molgen.mpg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 04:07:32PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (22/08/15 09:02), Greg KH wrote: > [..] > > > We haven't sent out KCAM for upstream review yet. It's open sourced, > > > as of this moment [1], but we still need some time and wanted to convert > > > one of the previous generations of IPU drivers (IPU3) to KCAM first to > > > see if everything is working as we wanted it to. > > > > That didn't answer my question on when you were planning to actually > > submit this :) > > Definitely not today. Someday, for sure :) > > I don't want to promise any timelines. But we are certainly not > talking "weeks", we are talking "months". Several months is a > realistic timeline. If I were to bet, I'd say no less than a year :-) And even then, as stated separately, you'll have to convince the upstream community that the API is suitable. It would be best to work with upstream today on a proposal that please all parties, and not wait a year for a full implementation to be ready, submitted, and rejected. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart