From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262785AbTDFEgN (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 23:36:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262792AbTDFEgN (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 23:36:13 -0500 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:46738 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262785AbTDFEgM (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 23:36:12 -0500 Message-ID: <33026.4.64.238.61.1049604463.squirrel@webmail.osdl.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 20:47:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: does video for linux depend on I2C? From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > the help screen for I2C support claims that you need > I2C for video for linux support. however, it's still > possible to not select I2C and yet select video for > linux. > > is there a Kconfig dependency missing here? A grep in drivers/media/*.c finds 44 files that contain I2C or i2c. At least one of them is only a comment. And drivers/media/video/Kconfig does include I2C as a dependency in some cases. The I2C subsystem seems to be in a great state of flux right now also. I expect that the statement in drivers/i2c/Kconfig is a bit strong; I don't think that I2C is needed for _all_ V4L support, just some of them. ~Randy