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| author |   Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com> | 2021-01-12 20:49:19 +0100 |
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| committer |   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2021-02-06 09:39:44 +0100 |
| commit | 85db876b08f10705e992bc924530f74de3859f22 (patch) | |
| tree | 6334cd571deed3adf8416583fb68bffacf6b9ee2 /Documentation/driver-api | |
| parent | media: ov6650: Use the generic clock framework (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-85db876b08f10705e992bc924530f74de3859f22.tar.xz linux-dev-85db876b08f10705e992bc924530f74de3859f22.zip | |
media: Remove the legacy v4l2-clk API
The V4L2 temporary clock helper API, was introduced
in late 2012 and, as mentioned in the documentation,
meant to be replaced by the generic clock API,
once the generic clock framework became available
on all relevant architectures.
The generic clock API is a well-established API (since a few
years now). The last few media capture drivers and sensors
using v4l2-clk have been converted to the generic clock framework.
We can now remove the v4l2-clk API.
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Petr Cvek <petrcvekcz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-clocks.rst | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-core.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-clocks.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-clocks.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 5c22eecab7ba..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-clocks.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 - -V4L2 clocks ------------ - -.. attention:: - - This is a temporary API and it shall be replaced by the generic - clock API, when the latter becomes widely available. - -Many subdevices, like camera sensors, TV decoders and encoders, need a clock -signal to be supplied by the system. Often this clock is supplied by the -respective bridge device. The Linux kernel provides a Common Clock Framework for -this purpose. However, it is not (yet) available on all architectures. Besides, -the nature of the multi-functional (clock, data + synchronisation, I2C control) -connection of subdevices to the system might impose special requirements on the -clock API usage. E.g. V4L2 has to support clock provider driver unregistration -while a subdevice driver is holding a reference to the clock. For these reasons -a V4L2 clock helper API has been developed and is provided to bridge and -subdevice drivers. - -The API consists of two parts: two functions to register and unregister a V4L2 -clock source: v4l2_clk_register() and v4l2_clk_unregister() and calls to control -a clock object, similar to the respective generic clock API calls: -v4l2_clk_get(), v4l2_clk_put(), v4l2_clk_enable(), v4l2_clk_disable(), -v4l2_clk_get_rate(), and v4l2_clk_set_rate(). Clock suppliers have to provide -clock operations that will be called when clock users invoke respective API -methods. - -It is expected that once the CCF becomes available on all relevant -architectures this API will be removed. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-core.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-core.rst index 0dcad7a23141..1a8c4a5f256b 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-core.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-core.rst @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Video4Linux devices v4l2-controls v4l2-videobuf v4l2-videobuf2 - v4l2-clocks v4l2-dv-timings v4l2-flash-led-class v4l2-mc |