Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: scan: Ignore Dell XPS 9320 camera graph port nodes

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

Hi Sakari,

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:17 PM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 04:30:30PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Sakari I know you have been pushing for MIPI camera descriptions under
> > ACPI to move to a standardized format and I can see how that is a good
> > thing, but atm it seems to mainly cause things to break and before
> > the ACPI MIPI DISCO support landed in 6.8 we did not have these issues,
> > since the information used by the ipu-bridge code does seem to be correct.
>
> Support for capturing from cameras on IPU6 systems (IPU6 ISYS driver and
> IPU bridge changes) was upstreamed for 6.10, with some drivers such as IVSC
> (four of them) and IVSC related IPU bridge changes merged for 6.8 already.
>
> We can't guarantee the continued functioning of downstream drivers in cases
> where new upstream drivers for the same devices get merged to the kernel,
> often with different APIs. You know that as well as I do.
>
> In other words, there was no regression with respect to the upstream
> kernel.

Users' opinions on this may differ I suppose.

If a user sees a new kernel warning on boot, they will easily count it
as a regression, and with panic_on_warn this becomes a full-fledged
kernel crash.

This is bad, even though it may be coming from a new driver strictly speaking.