On 13/03/14 16:13, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: > On 13/03/14 12:35, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > [...] >> > Grant and myself have exchanged emails in private on this discussing what >> > should happen - essentially Grant's position is that he's happy to leave >> > this stuff queued provided a resolution to his concerns are forthcoming. >> > >> > However, what I find incredibly unfair is that we're taking the rap for >> > these bad bindings. From what I can see, these bad bindings were merged >> > into the V4L2 code with _zero_ review by DT maintainers. It's quite >> > clear that DT maintainers would have objected to them had they seen them, > > Russell, it's just unfair what you're trying to impute here. These > bindings were floating on the mailing list for _several_ months before > getting merged. > They were finally acked by Rob and Grant [1], [2], however it cannot be > seen from the commits as the Ack come late, after I sent a pull request. > >> > but they didn't. And the lack of documentation of the bindings which >> > has been something that's been insisted on is also disgusting. >> > >> > And now we're now taking the pain for that oversight. >> > >> > So... frankly, I've walked away from this dysfunctional situation. I >> > don't see imx-drm moving out of drivers/staging due to this debacle for >> > many months - possibly never now given that no one can agree on this >> > stuff. This just goes to show what a fscking joke mainline kernels are, >> > and why people just give up and go to vendor kernels which offer /much/ >> > better support all round. >> > >> > As far as I can see, it's proved impossible to define a set of bindings >> > for display devices which satisfy everyone. So, rather than doing >> > /something/ so we can move forward, we end up doing /nothing/. >> > >> > It's times like this where I start believing that /board files/ were the >> > best solution for ARM, because DT just carries soo many thorny issues >> > (such as these) and is a continual blocker. > > My experience and feelings are similar, I started to treat mainline > kernel much less seriously after similar DT related blocking issues. > An example is a simple patch series for couple drivers that was first > posted in July 2013 and is still not merged, because the subsystem > maintainer requires a DT binding maintainer Ack for everything and you > can wait to death to get one, specially if there are multiple iterations, > each needing attention of a DT binding maintainer. I remember opinions, > when the process was being defined during one of the last kernel summits, > that things may get longer to merge upstream, due to DT binding reviews. > And that we must live with that. But these latencies are getting so > ridiculously large that there is nothing left but to move to an > alternative process. > > Regarding moving forward doing /something/, rather than ending up > doing nothing - IMO it's the worst thing to rush DT binding being > merged upstream. I don't think an agreement can't be achieved soon, > if not for this release then hopefully for next one. Sorry about the missing links: [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg61899.html [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg62458.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
