[PATCH v1, 04/14] dt-bindings: media: mtk-vcodec: Separate video encoder and decoder dt-bindings

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Wed Jul 14 16:13:59 PDT 2021


On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 06:04:54PM +0800, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 2:22 PM Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong at mediatek.com> wrote:
> >  .../media/mediatek-vcodec-decoder.txt         | 169 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  .../media/mediatek-vcodec-encoder.txt         |  73 ++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 242 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek-vcodec-decoder.txt
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek-vcodec-encoder.txt
> The patch is weird.  Its title says "separate" but the changes are all
> creating new content.
> 
> Would expect the patch to remove content from some files (e.g.
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek-vcodec.txt) and
> separate into 2 files.

Except h/w doesn't change. Using the component framework is not a reason 
to change bindings.

Also, note that any major changes or additions should be in schema 
format now.

Rob



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