Re: [RFC] adp1653: Add device tree bindings for LED controller

[Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>]

Hi Pali,

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 04:01:31PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2014 15:55:46 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> [141117 02:17]:
> > > On Mon 2014-11-17 11:09:45, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > On Monday 17 November 2014 11:05:19 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Mon 2014-11-17 09:43:19, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > > > On Sunday 16 November 2014 08:59:28 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > > > For device tree people: Yes, I know I'll have to
> > > > > > > create file in documentation, but does the binding
> > > > > > > below look acceptable?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I'll clean up driver code a bit more, remove the
> > > > > > > printks. Anything else obviously wrong?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I think that this patch is probably not good and
> > > > > > specially not for n900. adp1653 should be registered
> > > > > > throw omap3 isp camera subsystem which does not have
> > > > > > DT support yet.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you explain?
> > > > > 
> > > > > adp1653 is independend device on i2c bus, and we have
> > > > > kernel driver for it (unlike rest of n900 camera
> > > > > system). Just now it is unusable due to lack of DT
> > > > > binding. It has two functions, LED light and a camera
> > > > > flash; yes, the second one should be integrated to the
> > > > > rest of camera system, but that is not yet merged. That
> > > > > should not prevent us from merging DT support for the
> > > > > flash, so that this part can be tested/maintained.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok. When ISP camera subsystem has DT support somebody will
> > > > modify n900 DT to add camera flash from adp1653 to ISP...
> > > > I believe it will not be hard.
> > > 
> > > Exactly. And yes, I'd like to get complete camera support
> > > for n900 merged. But first step is "make sure existing
> > > support does not break".
> > 
> > There's nothing stopping us from initializing the camera code
> > from pdata-quirks.c for now to keep it working. Certainly the
> > binding should be added to the driver, but that removes a
> > dependency to the legacy booting mode if things are otherwise
> > working.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Tony
> 
> Tony, legacy board code for n900 is not in mainline tree. And 
> that omap3 camera subsystem for n900 is broken since 3.5 
> kernel... (both Front and Back camera on n900 show only green 
> picture).

Can you capture raw bayer images correctly? I assume green means YUV buffers
that are all zero.

Do you know more specifically which patch breaks it?

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus
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