Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 24 2023 - 09:09:25 EST


On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 08:23:33PM +0800, Jack Zhu wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 2023/8/24 19:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 04:01:01PM +0800, Jack Zhu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This series is the v8 series that attempts to support the Camera Subsystem
> >> found on StarFive JH7110 SoC.
> >
> > I don't see anything here about why this is in drivers/staging/media/
> > now and not just in drivers/media/. What is preventing this to be put
> > into the correct place to start with? What needs to be done to the code
> > to get it out of drivers/staging/media/ and who is going to do that
> > work?
> >
>
> The series does not contain 3A interface. According to Laurent's suggestion,
> we put the driver in the staging directory first. In the next stage, we will
> continue to submit the 3A interface in the way of incremental development,
> and finally expect the code to be placed in the drivers/media/.

Can you please say that in the changelog text for when you are adding
the driver so that we know this?

thanks,

greg k-h