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Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:04:37 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22] media: Move v4l2_fwnode_parse_link from v4l2 to
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:04:41PM -0700, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/14/19 3:30 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 09:53:41AM -0700, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > > The full patchset doesn't seem to be up yet, but see [1] for the cover
> > > letter.
> > Was the entire series copied to the mailing lists, or just selected
> > patches?  I only saw 4, 9, 11 and 13-22 via lakml.
> 
> The whole series was posted to the linux-media ML, see [1]. At the time,
> none of the linux-media ML archives had the whole series.
> 
> > In the absence of the other patches, will this solve imx-media binding
> > the internal subdevs of sensor devices to the CSI2 interface?
> 
> "internal subdevs of sensor devices" ?? That doesn't make any sense.

Sorry, but it makes complete sense when you consider that sensor
devices may have more than one subdev, but there should be only one
that is the "output" to whatever the camera is attached to.  The
other subdevs are internal to the sensor.

subdevs are not purely the remit of SoC drivers.

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