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The CSI2 specification specifies a standard method to access camera sensor registers called "Camera Control Interface (CCI)". This uses either 8 or 16 bit (big-endian wire order) register addresses and supports 8, 16, 24 or 32 bit (big-endian wire order) register widths. Currently a lot of Linux camera sensor drivers all have their own custom helpers for this, often copy and pasted from other drivers. Add a set of generic helpers for this so that all sensor drivers can switch to a single common implementation. These helpers take an extra optional "int *err" function parameter, this can be used to chain a bunch of register accesses together with only a single error check at the end, rather than needing to error check each individual register access. The first failing call will set the contents of err to a non 0 value and all other calls will then become no-ops. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/59aefa7f-7bf9-6736-6040-39551329cd0a@redhat.com/ Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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