Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] media: atomisp: queue: remove unused local queue support

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 12:03:38PM +0000, Rareș-Mihai Vladu wrote:
> ia_css_queue_local_init() has no callers, so no queue is ever created
> as local. ia_css_queue_uninit() only handles local queues and has no
> callers either.
> 
> All queue handles are in the static css_queues in bufq.c, and
> ia_css_bufq_init() sets up each of them with ia_css_queue_remote_init().
> This happens in ia_css_start_sp(), before the host sets
> host_sp_queues_initialized for the firmware, and css_queues is not
> cleared afterwards. Before that, the old code would have taken the local
> path with a NULL cb_local.desc and hit OP___assert(), so the handles do
> not seem to be used before initialization.
> 
> With only remote queues left, the queue type no longer serves a purpose.
> Remove the local queue code together with IA_CSS_QUEUE_TYPE_REMOTE, the
> type field and the type checks.
> 
> struct ia_css_queue appears to be host-only: it is not copied to SP or
> ISP memory, and the firmware uses struct host_sp_queues, whose addresses
> the handle stores. Removing the union member keeps the struct size on
> 32-bit and reduces it on 64-bit, where cb_local held two pointers.

Yep! I hope now you see the elegance of this change.
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko