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From:   "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Mar 2020 10:18:43 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: i2c: ov5645: Add virtual_channel module parameter
To:     Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
        linux-media <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
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Hi Sakari,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:43 AM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:41:26PM +0000, Lad Prabhakar wrote:
> > OV5645 can operate in virtual channel 0-3 in CSI2 interfaces, this patch
> > adds support for module parameter virtual_channel to select the required
> > channel. By default OV5645 operates in virtual channel 0.
>
> What's your use case for different virtual channels?
>
Just ability to switch to different virtual channel, based on ov5640
driver. The rcar-csi2
has capability to capture  from multiple channels so that we can
capture simultaneously
from two sensors.

Cheers,
--Prabhakar

> --
> Regards,
>
> Sakari Ailus