Re: [PATCH 01/28] media: cec: ch7322: drop of_match_ptr for ID table

[Sakari Ailus]

Hi Krzysztof,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 08:46:58AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 19/06/2023 16:13, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 25/05/2023 15:19, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 03:40:04PM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> >>> Hi Hans,
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>>> On 12/05/2023 18:35, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>>>> On 12/03/2023 14:12, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>>>>> The driver can match only via the DT table so the table should be always
> >>>>>> used and the of_match_ptr does not have any sense (this also allows ACPI
> >>>>>> matching via PRP0001, even though it might not be relevant here).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   drivers/media/cec/i2c/ch7322.c:583:34: error: ‘ch7322_of_match’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hans, Sakari,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can you pick up the patchset? There was positive feedback:
> >>>>> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/patch/20230312131318.351173-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but it seems it was not applied.
> >>>>
> >>>> I see it is delegated to Sakari in patchwork and marked Under Review, but I don't
> >>>> see a corresponding pull request for this series.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sakari, did something go wrong?
> >>>
> >>> I spotted this as Hans notified me in IRC, I wasn't cc'd. Apologies for
> >>> this --- I intended to take these but I think I must have missed something
> >>> important in the process. I'll take them now.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>
> >> This no longer applied cleanly. Mostly there was fuzz near .of_match_table
> >> changes as probe_new (and remove_new?) changes have been recently merged.
> >> There were other issues as well, I marked a few patches in the set "not
> >> applicable" as other patches had already done equivalent changes earlier.
> >>
> >> There were substance-changing changes in the 20th patch, replied to the
> >> disuccsion there.
> >>
> >> I've pushed the result here and intend to send PR to Mauro soon if there
> >> are no issues:
> >>
> >> <URL:https://git.linuxtv.org/sailus/media_tree.git/log/?h=of-match-ptr>
> > 
> > One month later, I still don't see this set in the linux-next.  What's
> > happening here?
> > 
> 
> I don't think this was merged in v6.5-rc1. It's not in linux-next,
> either. Another month passed...

These are now in the media-stage tree
<URL:https://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git/log/>. Assuming nothing goes
wrong, these should end up in Linus's tree for 6.6.

The issues related to media tree maintenance are being addressed as we're
changing the process how the tree is maintained. The patches will
eventually get in still, also expect this to improve in the future.

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus