Can I put a V4L2 soc camera driver under other subsystem directory?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

Hi Bryan,

On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Bryan Wu wrote:

> Hi Guennadi and LMML,
> 
> I'm working on a camera controller driver for Tegra, which is using
> soc_camera. But we also need to use Tegra specific host1x interface
> like syncpt APIs.
> 
> Since host1x is quite Tegra specific framework which is in
> drivers/gpu/host1x and has several host1x's client driver like graphic
> 2D driver, my v4l2 soc_camera driver is also a host1x client driver.
> Right now host1x does not expose any global include header files like
> API in the kernel, because no other users. So we plan to put all
> host1x related driver together, is that OK for us to put our Tegra
> soc_camera driver into drivers/gpu/host1x/camera or similar?
> 
> I guess besides it will introduce some extra maintenance it should be OK, right?

Exactly, there's already been a precedent:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg56213.html

It hasn't been finalised yet though.

Thanks
Guennadi
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