Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] dt-bindings: media: nxp,imx8mq-vpu: Update bindings

[Benjamin Gaignard]

Le 23/02/2021 à 01:34, Rob Herring a écrit :
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 01:24:05PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> > The current bindings seem to make the assumption that the
> > two VPUs hardware blocks (G1 and G2) are only one set of
> > registers.
> > After implementing the VPU reset driver and G2 decoder driver
> > it shows that all the VPUs are independent and don't need to
> > know about the registers of the other blocks.
> > Remove from the bindings the need to set all blocks register
> > but keep reg-names property because removing it from the driver
> > may affect other variants.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > version 2:
> > - be more verbose about why I change the bindings
> > Keep in mind that series comes after: https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg875766.html
> > without that review and ack it won't work
> Better, but you've still mentioned nothing about breaking compatibility.
> Why is that okay?

Because this reg-names wasn't used before for this variant so remove it won't change anything.

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