Re: [PATCH v5 00/15] Add functionality to ipu3-cio2 driver allowing software_node connections to sensors on platforms designed for Windows

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:08:04AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:28:23PM +0000, Daniel Scally wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all
> > 
> > v4:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20210103231235.792999-1-djrscally@gmail.com/T/#m11b7cb977e1b73fba1e625c3d6a189e2943a7783
> > v3:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20201224010907.263125-1-djrscally@gmail.com/T/#m37b831bb2b406917d6db5da9acf9ed35df65d72d
> > v2:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20201217234337.1983732-1-djrscally@gmail.com/T/#md93fd090009b42a6a98aed892aff0d38cf07e0cd
> > v1:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20201130133129.1024662-1-djrscally@gmail.com/T/#m91934e12e3d033da2e768e952ea3b4a125ee3e67
> > 
> > This series is to start adding support for webcams on laptops with ACPI tables
> > designed for use with CIO2 on Windows. This series extends the ipu3-cio2
> > driver to allow for patching the firmware via software_nodes if endpoints
> > aren't defined by ACPI.
> > 
> > I'm hopeful that most or all of this series could get picked up for 5.12.
> > We touch a few different areas (listed below), but I think the easiest
> > approach would be to merge everything through media tree. Rafael, Greg,
> > Mauro and Sergey; are you ok with that plan, or would you prefer a
> > different approach? Mauro; if that plan is ok (and of course assuming that
> > the rest of the patches are acked by their respective maintainers) could
> > we get a dedicated feature branch just in case the following series ends
> > up being ready in time too?
> > 
> > lib
> >   lib/test_printf.c: Use helper function to unwind array of
> >     software_nodes
> > 
> > base
> >   software_node: Fix refcounts in software_node_get_next_child()
> >   property: Return true in fwnode_device_is_available for NULL ops
> >   property: Call fwnode_graph_get_endpoint_by_id() for fwnode->secondary
> >   software_node: Enforce parent before child ordering of nodes arrays
> >   software_node: unregister software_nodes in reverse order
> 
> Could you please let us know with an Acked-by if these patches can be
> merged through the linux-media tree for v5.12 ? This is a cross-tree
> series and we would like to avoid topic branches if possible.

Yes, they are all fine with me, will go provide my ack, sorry for the
delay.

greg k-h