Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/02] Remove undocumented IMR-LX4 device nodes

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Hi Magnus,

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:49 PM Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Remove undocumented IMR-LX4 device nodes
>
> [PATCH/RFC 01/02] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a7795: Remove IMR-LX4 device nodes
> [PATCH/RFC 02/02] arm64: dts: renesas: r8a7796: Remove IMR-LX4 device nodes
>
> These patches take the easy way out and simply remove the undocumented
> IMR-LX4 device nodes from the upstream tree. Good or bad, let me know!
>
> So perhaps this is a bit overly aggressive but since the DT bindings seem
> undocumented and no driver exists in upstream my gut feeling says these DT
> nodes were part of an upstreaming attempt that got suspended half-way through.
>
> In case DT binding documentation is in-flight and queued up somewhere
> (ideally together with a driver) then feel free to ignore this series.
>
> Instead of removing nodes we could also document the DT bindings for the
> IMR-LX4 devices. It would also make sense to add device nodes to other
> more recent SoCs than just H3 and M3-W. But blindly adding more DT nodes
> with a DT binding but without a driver seems a bit suboptimal compared to
> testing against an actual driver.

[PATCH v5] media: platform: Renesas IMR driver
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-renesas-soc/20170309200818.786255823@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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