Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] media: venus: enable venus on qcs615

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 05/06/2025 14:30, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 13:13, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/06/2025 08:16, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 08:05:24AM +0800, Renjiang Han wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 5/31/2025 4:27 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 09:32:12AM +0530, Renjiang Han wrote:
>>>>>> QCS615 uses the same video core as SC7180, so reuse the same resource
>>>>>> data of SC7180 for QCS615 to enable video functionality.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are no resources for the video-decoder and video-encoder nodes
>>>>>> in the device tree, so remove these two nodes from the device tree. In
>>>>>> addition, to ensure that the video codec functions properly, use [3]
>>>>>> to add encoder and decoder node entries in the venus driver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Validated this series on QCS615 and SC7180.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note:
>>>>>> This series consist of DT patches and a venus driver patch. The patch
>>>>>> 1/3, which is venus driver patch, can be picked independently without
>>>>>> having any functional dependency. But patch 2/3 & patch 3/3, which are
>>>>>> DT patches, still depend on [1].
>>>>> I'd say 2/3 and 3/3 still depend on 1/3, otherwise we can get video core
>>>>> on QCS615 over(?)clocked.
>>>> Agree, so we need to make sure that the driver patch is not picked after the
>>>> DT patch.
>>>
>>> Worse: we need to make sure that the driver patch is present in the
>>> branch which picks up DT patches. Otherwise building & testing that
>>
>>
>> Well, that's a NAK then (although depends what you mean by DT).
> 
> I mean qcs615.dtsi. I'd suggest an immutable branch for the driver

Sorry, but no, DTS cannot depend on drivers. You CANNOT merge them into
one branch.

> patch. Or just merging the patches in two consequent releases.

That's a new device nodes, new hardware so it should not be blocked by
any driver patch. This is just totally broken process / patchset / work.

Best regards,
Krzysztof