Re: [RFC PATCH v10 6/9] media: tegra: Add Tegra210 Video input driver

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Sat Apr 25 2020 - 19:40:33 EST


26.04.2020 01:11, Sowjanya Komatineni ÐÐÑÐÑ:
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> On 4/25/20 3:08 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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>> 25.04.2020 01:00, Sowjanya Komatineni ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>> On 4/24/20 8:07 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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>>>> 24.04.2020 06:55, Sowjanya Komatineni ÐÐÑÐÑ:
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>>>> Is this driver compiled as a single kernel module file?
>>>>
>>>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@xxxxxxxxxx>");
>>>>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NVIDIA Tegra CSI Device Driver");
>>>>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>>>> ...
>>>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@xxxxxxxxxx>");
>>>>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NVIDIA Tegra Video Input Device Driver");
>>>>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>>>> I don't think that these macros are needed in that case.
>>>> The video.c should be enough, isn't it?
>>> yes these can be removed
>> It will be nice to factor out the Tegra210-specific VI/CSI OPS into a
>> separate driver module (say tegra210-vi) to ease supporting of other
>> Tegra versions. Of course this could be done later on, although I
>> suppose the amount of hassle could be reduced if it's done from the
>> start.
> vi/csi.c are common drivers for all Tegras. All Tegra chip specific
> related programming for both vi and csi were already moved to Tegra210.c
> based on prior feedbacks.

Judging by the code's structure the VI/CSI drivers aren't planned to be
reused by older pre-Terga210 SoCs, correct?

How much of the T210 code could be reused by T186/194?