Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] dt-bindings: media: nxp,imx8mq-vpu: Update bindings

Rob Herring
2021-02-23T00:35:30Z

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 01:24:05PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> The current bindings seem to make the assumption that the
> two VPUs hardware blocks (G1 and G2) are only one set of
> registers.
> After implementing the VPU reset driver and G2 decoder driver
> it shows that all the VPUs are independent and don't need to
> know about the registers of the other blocks.
> Remove from the bindings the need to set all blocks register
> but keep reg-names property because removing it from the driver
> may affect other variants.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com>
> ---
> version 2:
> - be more verbose about why I change the bindings
> Keep in mind that series comes after: https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg875766.html
> without that review and ack it won't work

Better, but you've still mentioned nothing about breaking compatibility.
Why is that okay?