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

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Hello!

On 01/21/2019 03:01 PM, Magnus Damm wrote:

>> 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/
> 
> Thanks, but that seems to be from 2017! =)

   I dropped the ball there, as I was tasked with upstreaming V3x support...
The last thing done about the IMR driver was talking to Hans in Prague in 2017.
I'm planning to return to the driver after I'm done with the HyperFlash driver.

> Cheers,
> 
> / magnus

MBR, Sergei



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