linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] dt-bindings: media: Document bindings for the Sunxi-Cedrus VPU driver

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Date:   Fri, 4 May 2018 10:12:14 +0200
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
To:     Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "list@....net:IOMMU DRIVERS <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Joerg 
        Roedel <joro@...tes.org>," <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, wens@...e.org,
        Pawel Osciak <pawel@...iak.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] dt-bindings: media: Document bindings for the
 Sunxi-Cedrus VPU driver

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:56:20AM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > > I agree that the term VPU is more commonly associated with video
> > > decoding, while video engine could mean a number of things.
> > > 
> > > The reason I went with "video-engine" here (while still presenting
> > > the
> > > driver as a VPU driver) is that Video Engine is the term used in
> > > Allwinner's litterature. Other nodes in Allwinner device-trees
> > > generally
> > > stick to these terms (for instance, we have "display-engine" nodes).
> > > This also makes it easier to find the matching parts in the
> > > documentation.
> > 
> > 'video-codec' is what is defined in the DT spec.
> 
> Is that an actively-enforced guideline or a suggestion? I'd like to keep
> video-engine just to stick with the technical documentation wording and
> my personal taste is also to prefer vpu over video-codec (in terms of
> clarity/straightforwardness) as a second choice.
> 
> Still, if the choice isn't up to me, we can go with video-codec (or
> vpu).

The unit-name is supposed to reflect the class of the device, and
nothing else. If there's already a pre-existing class name defined for
these kind of devices, then there's no point in choosing something
else.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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