Am Montag, den 24.02.2014, 15:52 +0000 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:36:03PM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote: > > From: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > The existing v4l2-of parser functions for the video interface bindings > > described in Documentation/device-tree/bindings/media/video-interfaces.txt > > are useful for DRM drivers, too. They will be moved to drivers/media > > so they can be used by drm drivers, too. Until then, duplicate the > > v4l2-of parser functions temporarily. > > > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@xxxxxxxxx> > > Ergh. So, because we can't get agreement on where to put the common > helpers, we have to put up with adding duplicate helpers into the > staging directory, inflating not only the kernel source code size > but also the binary size as well. This part is only for the convenience of prospective reviewers/testers. I hope I don't have exhausted your patience at this patch, because the real changes start at 3/9. This is one reason why I still didn't drop the RFC. Basically, with so many moving parts, I didn't feel like telling people to fetch three different series just to make sense of this one. > Come on people, get agreement on how to deal with this. Staging may > be a dumping ground for drivers which aren't ready to be merged as > proper drivers, but this is no reason to ignore proper process. > > Do we, or do we not want to get imx-drm out of drivers/staging? If > we do, the only way that's going to happen is if we stop throwing in > this kind of stuff. regards Philipp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
