linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 5/8] dt-bindings: media: add TI DS90UB960 FPD-Link III Deserializer

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Message-ID: <20230419181337.2448179d@booty>
Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 18:13:37 +0200
From:   Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@...tlin.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...asonboard.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <Matti.Vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@...asonboard.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michael Tretter <m.tretter@...gutronix.de>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Mike Pagano <mpagano@...too.org>,
        Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@...p.pl>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Satish Nagireddy <satish.nagireddy@...cruise.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 5/8] dt-bindings: media: add TI DS90UB960 FPD-Link
 III Deserializer

Hi Wolfram,

On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:05:54 +0200
Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org> wrote:

> > > Why is "i2c-alias-pool" in the drivers binding and not a regular i2c
> > > binding? Same question for the implementation of the alias-pool
> > > handling. Shouldn't this be in the i2c-atr library? I'd think managing
> > > the list of aliases would look all the same in the drivers otherwise?  
> > 
> > I think that this _was_ the plan, as it looks obviously cleaner, but
> > then we agreed that we should remove the pool entirely, so I didn't
> > bother moving it.  
> 
> Ah, you mean we agreed on that at the Plumbers BoF? I think we can
> conclude this is obsolete meanwhile. GMSL encodes the target addresses
> in DT. Rob is also fine with the binding here to encode the pool in DT.
> Let's follow that road, I'd say.

Sure, I'm not questioning that. Apologies if it did look like. I was
just trying to explain (to myself as well) why this hadn't been done
previously.

Best regards,
Luca

-- 
Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com