linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: venus: assign unique bus

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Message-ID: <249ccbbc-7990-43f0-b205-d5f33a1c9ad3@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:22:13 +0100
From: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@....qualcomm.com>
To: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez@....qualcomm.com>,
        vikash.garodia@....qualcomm.com, dikshita.agarwal@....qualcomm.com,
        bod@...nel.org, mchehab@...nel.org
Cc: linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: venus: assign unique bus_info strings for encoder
 and decoder

On 11/21/25 7:43 PM, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz wrote:
> The Venus encoder and decoder video devices currently report the same
> bus_info string ("platform:qcom-venus").
> 
> Assign unique bus_info identifiers by appending ":dec" and ":enc" to the
> parent device name. With this change v4l2-ctl will display two separate
> logical devices
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez@....qualcomm.com>
> ---

Perhaps that's a stupid question, but is there a reason they're
separate at all?

Konrad