Re: [PATCH v16 00/22] media: i2c: add Maxim GMSL2/3 serializer and deserializer drivers

From: Sakari Ailus

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 04:52:11 EST


Hi Dumitru,

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 04:21:19PM +0300, Dumitru Ceclan via B4 Relay wrote:
> This series adds new drivers for multiple Maxim GMSL2 and GMSL3 devices,
> replacing the few GMSL2 drivers already in upstream, and introducing a
> common framework that can be used to implement such GMSL chips, which
> avoids code duplication while also adding support for previously
> unsupported features.
>
> While the normally acceptable and polite way would be to extend the
> current mainline drivers, the choice was made here to add a totally new
> set of drivers. The current drivers support only a small subset of the
> possible features, and only a few devices, so the end result after
> extending them would in any case be essentially fully rewritten, new
> drivers.
>
> This series depends on support for internal pads, for which a patch has
> been added.
>
> The previous version is at:
> v15: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260807-gmsl2-3_serdes-v15-0-7212e9e5156a@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Since the previous series, Cosmin has left Analog Devices.
> Because included changes from previous version are trivial, his sign-off
> and tags were retained.

Can you check this
<URL:https://linux-media.pages.freedesktop.org/-/users/sailus/-/jobs/109521830/artifacts/junit/test-smatch.log.txt>
please? If there's a single patch that needs to be modified, I can squash a
patch into that, otherwise v17 it is.

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Regards,

Sakari Ailus