Re: [RFC PATCH v10 1/2] media: iris: introduce helper module to select video driver

Johan Hovold
2025-02-04T16:05:05Z

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:38:56PM +0530, Vikash Garodia wrote:
> On 2/4/2025 3:01 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > And we're still waiting to hear the answers to all of Hans' questions. I
> > still haven't seen anyone explaining why any of this is needed. You
> > could have just continued letting Venus support 8250 so presumably there
> > is some benefit in using Iris instead. Which? And is that potential
> > benefit important enough to not just wait until Iris is up to par
> > feature wise?

> They are documented in this RFC [1] as comments, and would be added in v10 as we
> conclude the ongoing discussion to handle 2 drivers during the transition phase.

Ah, I forgot about the comment. Most of that should probably go in the
cover letter and commit messages of v10 instead (and with a more
condensed comment in the code), but it does indeed seem to provide some
answers.

> [1]
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/patch/20250128080429.3911091-2-quic_dikshita@quicinc.com/

Johan