Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] media: dt-bindings: Drop starfive,jh7110-camss from staging

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

On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 12:38:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 17/01/2026 12:36, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 12:36:58PM +0530, Jai Luthra wrote:
> >> The starfive-camss driver is no longer being worked upon for destaging,
> >> and will be dropped in a subsequent commit, so drop the DT bindings.
> > 
> > That's a moderately new SoC and commit was added ~2 years ago. Why is
> > this being dropped exactly?
> 
> OK, the link below gives some answer but isn't this better just to mark
> it orphan and keep for some time? Is the driver working/useful? Maybe
> someone will volunteer for it?

It's in staging, nobody has registered any interest, the company behind
the hardware as publicly said they won't continue development, and
there's no documentation. I think that meets the bar for dropping the
driver. In the very unlikely case someone would want to revive it, the
source code will live in git history.

> >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZQ0PR01MB13024A92926C415C187D2C18F29F2@ZQ0PR01MB1302.CHNPR01.prod.partner.outlook.cn/
> >> Acked-by: Changhuang Liang <changhuang.liang@starfivetech.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jai Luthra <jai.luthra@ideasonboard.com>
> > 
> > Reverting/dropping changes is always in reverse of introducing them, so
> > this must be second commit. Otherwise your change is non-bisectable and
> > you have now warnings of undocumented ABI.

We can easily do that when applying.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart