linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 17/17] media: imx: TODO: Remove media link creation todos

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Date:   Tue,  4 Feb 2020 15:49:18 -0800
From:   Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@...il.com>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@...il.com>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@...il.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org (open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM),
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org (moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX
        / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE), linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH v3 17/17] media: imx: TODO: Remove media link creation todos

Remove the TODO items regarding media link creation, these issues are
resolved by moving media link creation to individual entity bound
callbacks and the implementation of the get_fwnode_pad operation.

Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO | 29 -----------------------------
 1 file changed, 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
index 6f29b5ca5324..a371cdedcdb0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO
@@ -17,35 +17,6 @@
   decided whether this feature is useful enough to make it generally
   available by exporting to v4l2-core.
 
-- After all async subdevices have been bound, v4l2_fwnode_parse_link()
-  is used to form the media links between the devices discovered in
-  the OF graph.
-
-  While this approach allows support for arbitrary OF graphs, there
-  are some assumptions for this to work:
-
-  1. If a port owned by a device in the graph has endpoint nodes, the
-     port is treated as a media pad.
-
-     This presents problems for devices that don't make this port = pad
-     assumption. Examples are SMIAPP compatible cameras which define only
-     a single output port node, but which define multiple pads owned
-     by multiple subdevices (pixel-array, binner, scaler). Or video
-     decoders (entity function MEDIA_ENT_F_ATV_DECODER), which also define
-     only a single output port node, but define multiple pads for video,
-     VBI, and audio out.
-
-     A workaround at present is to set the port reg properties to
-     correspond to the media pad index that the port represents. A
-     possible long-term solution is to implement a subdev API that
-     maps a port id to a media pad index.
-
-  2. Every endpoint of a port owned by a device in the graph is treated
-     as a media link.
-
-     Which means a port must not contain mixed-use endpoints, they
-     must all refer to media links between V4L2 subdevices.
-
 - i.MX7: all of the above, since it uses the imx media core
 
 - i.MX7: use Frame Interval Monitor
-- 
2.17.1