linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] [media] Media entity cleanups and build fixes

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Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:50:53 +0200
From:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
	Hyun Kwon <hyun.kwon@...inx.com>,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
	"Prabhakar\"" <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] [media] Media entity cleanups and build fixes

Hello Hans,

On 08/20/2015 02:41 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 08/19/15 17:35, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This series contains a couple of build fixes and cleanups for the
>> Media Controller framework. The goal of the series is to get rid of
>> the struct media_entity .parent member since now that a media_gobj is
>> embedded into entities, the media_gobj .mdev member can be used to
>> store a pointer to the parent struct media_device.
>>
>> So the .parent field becomes redundant and can be removed after all
>> the users are converted to use entity .graph_obj.mdev instead.
>>
>> Patches 1/4 and 2/4 are build fixes I found while build testing if no
>> regressions were introduced by the conversion. Patch 3/4 converts
>> all the drivers and the MC core to use .mdev instead of .parent and
>> finally patch 4/4 removes the .parent field since now is unused.
> 
> Regarding patches 1 and 2: these should of course be merged with Mauro's
> patches that make this particular change (patch 3/8), otherwise it would
> break git bisect.
> 
> Anyway,
> 
> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com> for the changes in patch

Thanks a lot for the acks.

> 1 and 2, as long as they are added to Mauro's patch 3/8.
>

Indeed, I completely agree that these should be squashed with
Mauro's patch to maintain git bisect-ability.
 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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