From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.31]:11182 "EHLO mga06.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750984AbdIKHva (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:51:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 02/24] v4l: async: Remove re-probing support To: Hans Verkuil , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se, robh@kernel.org, laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, mika.westerberg@intel.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, sre@kernel.org References: <20170908131235.30294-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> <20170908131235.30294-3-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> <787019fe-7402-7edb-3de6-9a683de78d71@xs4all.nl> From: Sakari Ailus Message-ID: <041af454-9aa7-653c-fa40-6f484829d36e@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:51:25 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <787019fe-7402-7edb-3de6-9a683de78d71@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/11/17 10:47, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On 09/08/2017 03:11 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote: >> Remove V4L2 async re-probing support. The re-probing support has been >> there to support cases where the sub-devices require resources provided by >> the main driver's hardware to function, such as clocks. >> >> Reprobing has allowed unbinding and again binding the main driver without >> explicilty unbinding the sub-device drivers. This is certainly not a >> common need, and the responsibility will be the user's going forward. >> >> An alternative could have been to introduce notifier specific locks. >> Considering the complexity of the re-probing and that it isn't really a >> solution to a problem but a workaround, remove re-probing instead. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus > > I Acked the v8 version, but don't see my Ack here. Did you miss it? I think I sent v9 around the time you sent the ack. :-) It will be in v10. -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com