Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: camera: remove broken camera driver

From: gregkh

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 03:55:36 EST


On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 06:43:33PM +0530, Ashwin Gundarapu wrote:
> The Greybus camera driver has been non-functional since its inclusion
> due to a missing greybus_protocols.h header and reliance on deprecated
> v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum.
>
> The Project Ara hardware this driver was written for never shipped,
> and the driver has seen no real fixes in over 8 years—only treewide
> cleanups such as GFP_KERNEL conversions and debugfs error handling
> changes.
>
> Remove the entire camera driver (~2,000 lines).
>
> Signed-off-by: Ashwin Gundarapu <linuxuser509@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c | 1047 ---------------------------
> drivers/staging/greybus/gb-camera.h | 127 ----
> 2 files changed, 1174 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/greybus/gb-camera.h

You forgot to delete this from the build and configuration at the same
time :(

thanks,

greg k-h