Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/9] Add functionality to ipu3-cio2 driver allowing software_node connections to sensors on platforms designed for Windows

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

[Fix the Linus Walleij's address.]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:59 AM Daniel Scally <djrscally@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello all
>
> This series adds support to the ipu3-cio2 driver for fwnode connections
> between cio2 and sensors to be defined via software_nodes. The final patch
> in the series deals wholly with those changes - the preceding patches are
> either supporting changes to accommodate that or incidental fixes along
> the way:
>
> 1/9 adds a function to drivers/base/swnode.c unwinding arrays of software
> nodes in reverse order
>
> 2/9 uses that function in lib/test_printf.c
>
> 3/9 fixes what seems to me to be a bug in the existing swnode.c code in
> that software_node_get_next_child() does not increase the refcount of the
> returned node (in contrast to, for example, of_get_next_child_node() which
> does increase the count)
>
> 4/9 adds the fwnode_graph*() family of functions to the software_node
> implementation
>
> 5/9 adds a T: entry to MAINTAINERS for the ipu3-cio2 driver
>
> 6/9 renames the ipu3-cio2.c file to ipu3-cio2-main.c and fixes Makefile
> to accommodate that change
>
> 7/9 alters the ipu3-cio2 driver to check if the pci_dev's fwnode is a
> software_node and pass flags to fwnode_graph_get_endpoint_by_id() if so
>
> 8/9 alters match_fwnode() in v4l2-async.c to additionally try to match on
> a fwnode_handle's secondary if the primary doesn't match
>
> 9/9 alters the ipu3-cio2 driver to do the actual building of software_node
> connections between the sensor devices and the cio2 device.
>
> This is still not ready for integration - hence the RFC label - as there
> is ongoing work to extend the ipu3-cio2 driver further to parse ACPI
> to discover resources such as regulators and GPIOs that are defined there
> in unusual ways and map them to the sensor devices so that their drivers
> can consume them transparently through the usual frameworks. Given this
> has changed quite extensively from v2 though, I wanted to submit it for
> feedback at this point in case it needs further large scale change.

I would appreciate it if you posted the next version of this series
(all patches) to linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for easier review.

Thanks!