Re: [PATCH 1/6] media: dt-bindings: Document SC8280XP/SM8350 Venus

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 07/08/2023 14:41, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 5.08.2023 21:29, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 04/08/2023 22:09, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>> Both of these SoCs implement an IRIS2 block, with SC8280XP being able
>>> to clock it a bit higher.
>>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> +
>>> +  iommus:
>>> +    maxItems: 1
>>> +
>>> +  video-decoder:
>>> +    type: object
>>> +
>>> +    properties:
>>> +      compatible:
>>> +        const: venus-decoder
>>
>> That's not how compatibles are constructed... missing vendor prefix, SoC
>> or IP block name.
>>
>>> +
>>> +    required:
>>> +      - compatible
>>> +
>>> +    additionalProperties: false
>>
>> Why do you need this child node? Child nodes without properties are
>> usually useless.
> For both comments: I aligned with what was there..
> 
> The driver abuses these compats to probe enc/dec submodules, even though
> every Venus implementation (to my knowledge) is implicitly enc/dec capable..

Holy crap, I see...

> 
> Perhaps a bigger clean-up is due. I guess I could just create the venc/vdec
> devices from the venus core probe and get rid of this fake stuff?

Few devices (qcom,msm8996-venus.yaml, sdm660, sdm845) have clocks there,
so we actually could stay with these subnodes, just correct the
compatibles to a list with correct prefixes:

qcom,sc8280xp-venus-decoder + qcom,venus-decoder

Best regards,
Krzysztof