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    media: atmel: atmel-isc: move to staging · 55927c98
    Eugen Hristev authored
    The Atmel ISC driver is not compliant with media controller specification.
    In order to evolve this driver, it has to move to media controller, to
    support enhanced features and future products which embed it.
    The move to media controller involves several changes which are
    not backwards compatible with the current usability of the driver.
    
    The best example is the way the format is propagated from the top video
    driver /dev/videoX down to the sensor.
    
    In a simple configuration sensor ==> isc , the isc just calls subdev s_fmt
    and controls the sensor directly. This is achieved by having a lot of code
    inside the driver that will query the subdev at probe time and make a list
    of formats which are usable.
    Basically the user has nothing to configure, as the isc will handle
    everything at the top level. This is an easy way to capture, but also comes
    with the drawback of lack of flexibility.
    In a more complicated pipeline
    sensor ==> controller 1 ==> controller 2 ==> isc
    this will not be achievable, as controller 1 and controller 2 might be
    media-controller configurable, and will not propagate the formats down to
    the sensor.
    
    After discussions with the media maintainers, the decision is to move
    Atmel ISC to staging as-is, to keep the Kconfig symbols and the users
    to the driver in staging. Thus, all the existing users of the non
    media-controller paradigm will continue to be happy and use the old config
    way.
    
    The new driver was added in the media subsystem with a different
    symbol, with the conversion to media controller done, and new users
    of the driver will be able to use all the new features.
    
    This patch is merely a file move to staging, not affecting any of the
    users.
    
    The exported symbols had to be renamed to atmel_* to avoid duplication with
    the new Microchip ISC driver.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@microchip.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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