Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] v4l: async: Provide interoperability between OF and fwnode matching

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Hi Laurent,

On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 01:10:47AM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 01:07:48PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hi Sakari,
> > 
> > Thank you for the patch.
> > 
> > On Thursday 06 Apr 2017 16:12:06 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > OF and fwnode support are separated in V4L2 and individual drivers may
> > > implement one of them. Sub-devices do not match with a notifier
> > > expecting sub-devices with fwnodes, nor the other way around.
> > 
> > Shouldn't we instead convert all drivers to fwnode matching ? What's missing 
> > after the mass conversion in patch 5/8 ?
> 
> A lot of drivers use the OF frame work and thus do not deal with fwnodes
> directly. I haven't entirely converted them to use the fwnode API since
> making additional, unnecessary changes increases the likelihood of errors.

Doing the rest of the conversion was less work than I originally had
anticipated. The changes are obvious and very similar from driver to driver,
perhaps unsurprisingly. Nevertheless, additional testing coverage certainly
wouldn't hurt.

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ailus@xxxxxx	XMPP: sailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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