Re: [PATCH 01/28] media: cec: ch7322: drop of_match_ptr for ID table

[Hans Verkuil]

On 13/07/2023 08:46, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 19/06/2023 16:13, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 25/05/2023 15:19, Sakari Ailus wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 03:40:04PM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
>>>> Hi Hans,
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>>> On 12/05/2023 18:35, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/03/2023 14:12, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>>>> The driver can match only via the DT table so the table should be always
>>>>>>> used and the of_match_ptr does not have any sense (this also allows ACPI
>>>>>>> matching via PRP0001, even though it might not be relevant here).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   drivers/media/cec/i2c/ch7322.c:583:34: error: ‘ch7322_of_match’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hans, Sakari,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you pick up the patchset? There was positive feedback:
>>>>>> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/patch/20230312131318.351173-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but it seems it was not applied.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see it is delegated to Sakari in patchwork and marked Under Review, but I don't
>>>>> see a corresponding pull request for this series.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sakari, did something go wrong?
>>>>
>>>> I spotted this as Hans notified me in IRC, I wasn't cc'd. Apologies for
>>>> this --- I intended to take these but I think I must have missed something
>>>> important in the process. I'll take them now.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> This no longer applied cleanly. Mostly there was fuzz near .of_match_table
>>> changes as probe_new (and remove_new?) changes have been recently merged.
>>> There were other issues as well, I marked a few patches in the set "not
>>> applicable" as other patches had already done equivalent changes earlier.
>>>
>>> There were substance-changing changes in the 20th patch, replied to the
>>> disuccsion there.
>>>
>>> I've pushed the result here and intend to send PR to Mauro soon if there
>>> are no issues:
>>>
>>> <URL:https://git.linuxtv.org/sailus/media_tree.git/log/?h=of-match-ptr>
>>
>> One month later, I still don't see this set in the linux-next.  What's
>> happening here?
>>
> 
> I don't think this was merged in v6.5-rc1. It's not in linux-next,
> either. Another month passed...

I'm really hopeful it will be merged very soon. As you may have noticed (!) we
have problems with maintaining the media subsystem (too many patches, not enough
maintainers). We had a meeting about that a few weeks ago and are working on
it.

The core problem for this particular series was that the PR containing this series
was posted much too late (as in three months too late!), and it came in too late
for 6.5.

Regards,

	Hans