linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] venus: firmware: register separate platform

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Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 23:45:13 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Vikash Garodia <vgarodia@...eaurora.org>, andy.gross@...aro.org,
        arnd@...db.de, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, hverkuil@...all.nl,
        mark.rutland@....com, mchehab@...nel.org, robh@...nel.org,
        stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, acourbot@...omium.org,
        vgarodia@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] venus: firmware: register separate platform_device for
 firmware loader

Quoting Vikash Garodia (2018-08-23 07:28:48)
> From: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>
> 
> This registers a firmware platform_device and associate it with
> video-firmware DT subnode. Then calls dma configure to initialize
> dma and iommu.

Yes, but why? Commit text isn't supposed to say what is obvious from the
code.