Re: [PATCH v10 5/8] dt-bindings: media: add TI DS90UB960 FPD-Link III Deserializer

Luca Ceresoli
2023-04-19T16:13:50Z

Hi Wolfram,

On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:05:54 +0200
Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org> wrote:

> > > Why is "i2c-alias-pool" in the drivers binding and not a regular i2c
> > > binding? Same question for the implementation of the alias-pool
> > > handling. Shouldn't this be in the i2c-atr library? I'd think managing
> > > the list of aliases would look all the same in the drivers otherwise?
> >
> > I think that this _was_ the plan, as it looks obviously cleaner, but
> > then we agreed that we should remove the pool entirely, so I didn't
> > bother moving it.
>
> Ah, you mean we agreed on that at the Plumbers BoF? I think we can
> conclude this is obsolete meanwhile. GMSL encodes the target addresses
> in DT. Rob is also fine with the binding here to encode the pool in DT.
> Let's follow that road, I'd say.

Sure, I'm not questioning that. Apologies if it did look like. I was
just trying to explain (to myself as well) why this hadn't been done
previously.

Best regards,
Luca

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Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering