Hi Laurent,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Pinchart [mailto:laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:31 AM
> To: Aguirre, Sergio
> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org; Nataraju, Kiran
> Subject: Re: [omap3camera] How does a lens subdevice get powered up?
> 
> Hi Sergio,
> 
> On Wednesday 25 August 2010 22:15:36 Aguirre, Sergio wrote:
> > Hi Laurent,
> >
> > I see that usually a sensor is powered up on attempting a
> VIDIOC_STREAMON
> > at the capture endpoint of the pipeline, in which the sensor is linked.
> >
> > Now, what I don't understand quite well is, the Lens driver is a
> separate
> > subdevice, BUT it's obviously not linked to the sensor, nor the
> pipeline.
> >
> > How would the lens driver know when to power up?
> 
> At the moment a userspace application needs to keep the lens subdev open
> to
> power-up the lens controller.

I see... So in that case, does it make sense to consider it as a media entity?

I mean, there's no link, nor pad operations involved, so it doesn't really
add any value...

What do you think?

Regards,
Sergio

> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent Pinchart
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