Re: [PATCH v12 2/8] dt-bindings: media: platform: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti Video Input Interface

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:43:22AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 17/12/2024 01:00, yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp wrote:
> > Hello Krzysztof
> > 
> > Thank you for your review
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 7:08 PM
> >> To: ishikawa yuji(石川 悠司 ○ＲＤＣ□ＡＩＴＣ○ＥＡ開)
> >> <yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp>; Laurent Pinchart
> >> <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>; Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> >> <mchehab@kernel.org>; Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>; Krzysztof Kozlowski
> >> <krzk+dt@kernel.org>; Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>; Sakari Ailus
> >> <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>; Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>;
> >> iwamatsu nobuhiro(岩松 信洋 ○ＤＩＴＣ□ＤＩＴ○ＯＳＴ)
> >> <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp>
> >> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> >> linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 2/8] dt-bindings: media: platform: visconti: Add
> >> Toshiba Visconti Video Input Interface
> >>
> >> On 25/11/2024 10:21, Yuji Ishikawa wrote:
> >>> Adds the Device Tree binding documentation that allows to describe the
> >>> Video Input Interface found in Toshiba Visconti SoCs.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Yuji Ishikawa <yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp>
> >>
> >> Why this tag stayed and other was removed? What was the reason of tag
> >> removal?
> >>
> > 
> > The stayed tag is due to internal review.
> 
> Did the internal review really happened? How is it that immediately new
> version has internal review without any traces?
> 
> I have doubts this review happened in the context of reviewer's
> statement of oversight.
> 
> > The removed tag is due to code's change (split of csi2rx part) after the last review.
> > If the code is largely changed following the instruction of another reviewer
> > after obtaining the tags, how should the tags be handled?
> 
> Drop all reviews and perform reviews on the list.
> 
> Such internal review appearing afterwards is rather a proof it you are
> adding just the tags to satisfy your process. I have no way to even
> verify whether that person performed any reasonable review or maybe just
> acked your patch.

How do you verify that for public reviews ?

> I cannot even verify that that person understands the
> reviewer's statement of oversight.
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> >>>
> >>> Changelog v11:
> >>> - no change
> >>>
> >>> Changelog v12:
> >>> - remove property "clock-noncontinuous" as VIIF switches both modes
> >>> automatically
> >>> - remove property "link-frequencies" as VIIF does not use the
> >>> information
> >>
> >> Driver does not use or hardware supports only one frequency?
> > 
> > My comment was incorrect.
> > It should be "Driver does not use the information"
> 
> Then this is not that helping. Maybe hardware supports only one frequency?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart