Re: [PATCH 15/15] ARM: dts: exynos: Remove MFC reserved buffersg

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki
<s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 06:03 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 08:52:08AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>> During my research I found that some of the requirements for the memory
>>> buffers for MFC v6+ devices were blindly copied from the previous (v5)
>>> version and simply turned out to be excessive. The relaxed requirements
>>> are applied by the recent patches to the MFC driver and the driver is
>>> now fully functional even without the reserved memory blocks for all
>>> v6+ variants. This patch removes those reserved memory nodes from all
>> boards having MFC v6+ hardware block.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> Looks okay (for v4.12). Full bisectability depends on changes in MFC
>> driver, right?  I will need a stable branch/tag with driver changes
>> (although recently Arnd did not want driver changes mixed with DTS...).
>
> I'd suggest postponing that dts cleanup patch to v4.13, everything
> should continue to work properly with just the driver patches merged
> and that way there will be no need to pull all 14 driver patches
> into the arm-soc tree.

Yes. I didn't post an update here but to make it clear - the DTS
change in this case have to wait. It cannot go to a branch with the
driver changes (regardless if these as pulled from outside or included
as is).

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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