Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: gpu: mali-valhall-csf: add MediaTek MT8196 compatible

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:58:40 +0200
Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 16 September 2025 06:21:10 Central European Summer Time Chia-I Wu wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:  
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 06:51:16PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:  
> > > > Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>  
> > >
> > > Hmm, actually there seems to be a more complete binding proposed here:
> > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20250912-mt8196-gpufreq-v2-1-779a8a3729d9@collabora.com/  
> > Right. I tried to add the compatible to the binding (this patch)
> > before adding it to the driver (next patch).
> > 
> > If this patch is not a prerequisite for the driver change, I can drop
> > this. Or perhaps there is a better way?
> >   
> 
> Depends on what you want to do with the driver change; I could pull it
> into my patch series (I need it as a prerequisite now anyway, as v3
> will get rid of the clocks for MT8196 in the binding, which means it
> needs to have a flag for this in the soc_data struct you've added)
> 
> I think that would be the easiest solution so that we don't step on
> each other's toes, as long as you think the driver change is
> basically in its final form right now and does not need major
> revisions you'd still like to make yourself without having to
> coordinate submission through me.
> 
> Or, the most roundabout option: I split the bindings I submitted
> into a separate series, and then we can both declare them as deps
> for our driver changes. That might thoroughly confuse maintainers
> though. But then you can declare a dep on the bindings series and
> I can declare a dep on the bindings series and your patch.

The simplest option is probably to merge this series in drm-misc-next
and rebase your GPUEB changes on drm-misc-next.