[PATCH v3 20/24] media: imx: Add Camera Interface subdev driver

[Steve Longerbeam]

On 01/31/2017 03:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 02:36:53PM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
>> On 01/31/2017 02:04 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> I don't want master though, I want v4.10-rc1, and if I ask for that
>>> it tells me it knows nothing about v4.10-rc1, despite the fact that's
>>> a tag in the mainline kernel repository which was merged into the
>>> linux-media tree that this tree is based upon.
>> Hi Russell, yes git at github.com:slongerbeam/mediatree.git is a fork
>> of the linux-media tree, and the imx-media-staging-md-wip branch
>> is up-to-date with master, currently at 4.10-rc1.
> "up to date" is different from "contains other stuff other than is in
> 4.10-rc1".
>
> What I see in your tree is that your code is based off a merge commit
> between something called "patchwork" (which I assume is a branch in
> the media tree containing stuff commited from patch work) and v4.10-rc1.
>
> Now, you don't get a commit when merging unless there's changes that
> aren't in the commit you're merging - if "patchwork" was up to date
> with v4.10-rc1, then git would have done a "fast forward" to v4.10-rc1.
>
> Therefore, while it may be "up to date" with v4.10-rc1 in so far that
> it's had v4.10-rc1 merged into it, that's not what I've been saying.
> There are other changes below that merge commit which aren't in
> v4.10-rc1.  It's those other changes that I'm talking about, and it's
> those other changes I do not want without knowing what they are.
>
> It may be that those other changes have since been merged into
> v4.10-rc6 - but github's web interface can't show me that.  In fact,
> github's web interface is pretty damned useless as far as this stuff
> goes.
>
> So, what I'll get if I clone or pull your imx-media-staging-md-wip
> branch is, yes, a copy of all your changes, but _also_ all the
> changes that are in the media tree that _aren't_ in mainline at the
> point that v4.10-rc1 was merged.
>
>> You don't need to use the web interface, just git clone the repo.
> You're assuming I want to work off the top of your commits.  I don't.
> I've got other dependencies.

Well, I was suggesting cloning it just to have a look at the new
code, but I understand you don't want to attempt to bring in your
SMIA/bayer format changes and run from this branch, due to the
other changes in the mediatree.

I suppose I should post the next version then.

Trouble is, I see issues in the current driver that prevents working
with your SMIA pipeline. But I guess that will have to be worked out
in another version.

Steve

>
> Then there's yet another problem - lets say that I get a copy of your
> patches that haven't been on the mailing list, and I then want to make
> a comment about it.  I can't reply to a patch that hasn't been on the
> mailing list.  So, the long established mechanism by which the Linux
> community does patch review breaks down.
>
> So no, sorry, I'm not fetching your tree, and I will persist with your
> v3 patch set for the time being.
>