[PATCH 01/10] dt-bindings: media: mediatek,vcodec: Remove dma-ranges property

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 16/01/2023 09:01, Yong Wu (吴勇) wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-01-13 at 09:25 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 13/01/2023 07:01, Yong Wu wrote:
>>> MediaTek iommu has already controlled the masters' iova ranges by
>>> the
>>> master's larb/port id. then the dma-ranges property is unnecessary
>>> for
> 
>> Sentences in English always start with a capital letter, however also
>> they do not start with "Then". Make it a proper a proper sentence.
> 
> Sorry for the syntax issues. I think it is "," before "then".
> 
>>> the master's node. the master is vcodec here.
>>
>> Unnecessary or invalid? 
> 
> For mt8195, It is unnecessary. For the other SoC which doesn't use
> parent/child node, the property is invalid, however, there is no vcodec
> node have this property in this case in the current upstream dts nodes.
> 
>> Don't you depend now on some feature of driver
>> added for example recently?
> 
> No. It doesn't depend on any the other patches. Just depend
> on the code changing in this patchset. I just put the dt-binding
> at the beginning of this series.

So this is an ABI change where you expect no upstream users to be
affected? Why you do not clarify it in commit msg?

> 
>>>
>>> Cc: Tiffany Lin <tiffany.lin at mediatek.com>
>>> Cc: Andrew-CT Chen <andrew-ct.chen at mediatek.com>
>>> Cc: Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong at mediatek.com>
>>> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt at linaro.org>
>>
>> There is little point in storing output of get_maintainers.pl forever
>> in
>> the git log. If you need it for some reason, please keep it after -
>> --.
> 
> I did get the list from get_maintainers.pl. Sorry that I didn't
> differentiate.

Getting the list from get_maintainers.pl is correct but storing it
forever in git log is really unnecessary. It's not useful. It's just
automated output, reproducible at any given time.

> 


Best regards,
Krzysztof