On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 09:48:44AM +0100, Jacopo Mondi wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 01:59:06PM +0100, Francesco Dolcini wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 02:45:53PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 01:32:16PM +0100, Francesco Dolcini wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 07:36:49AM +0100, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: > > > > > > From: Aishwarya Kothari <aishwarya.kothari@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > > > > > Implement the introduced get_mbus_config operation to report the > > > > > > config of the MIPI CSI-2, BT.656 and Parallel interface. > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Kothari <aishwarya.kothari@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > > > What's the reasoning for this patch? > > > > > > > > Without this it's not possible to use it on i.MX6, > > > > drivers/staging/media/imx/imx6-mipi-csi2.c requires it, some more > > > > details from Jacopo here [0]. > > > > > > > > Everything used to work fine up to v5.18, after that kernel version > > > > various changes broke it [1][2] (I assume you are pretty much aware of > > > > the history here, you commented on a few emails). > > > > > > > > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230128100611.7ulsfqqqgscg54gy@uno.localdomain/ > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/081cc2d3-1f3a-6c14-6dc7-53f976be7b2b@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cacfe146-101b-35b3-5f66-1a1cabfd342f@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > > > > > > > Drivers that don't have e.g. dynamic lane configuration shouldn't need to > > > > > implement get_mbus_config. > > > > > > Not even for staging drivers. The driver should be fixed to get that > > > information from the endpoint instead. > > > > This seems exactly the opposite of what commit > > 7318abface48 ("media: imx: Use get_mbus_config instead of parsing upstream DT endpoints") > > did. > > > > Given that I am somehow confused, but I am not that familiar with this > > subsystem, so I guess this is expected :-). Can someone provide some > > additional hint here? > > > To be honest my understanding is that this patch has always been > needed to work on imx6 and this is not a regression but something that > was kept as an out-of-tree patch downstream. Is this correct or is > this a regression ? I confirm that v5.18 was/is fine. Aishwarya: correct? In the end you tested it, not me :-) Francesco
