Re: [RFT PATCH] [media] partial revert of "[media] tvp5150: add HW input connectors support"

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Philipp,

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 12:39 -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Commit f7b4b54e6364 ("[media] tvp5150: add HW input connectors support")
>> added input signals support for the tvp5150, but the approach was found
>> to be incorrect so the corresponding DT binding commit 82c2ffeb217a
>> ("[media] tvp5150: document input connectors DT bindings") was reverted.
>>
>> This left the driver with an undocumented (and wrong) DT parsing logic,
>> so lets get rid of this code as well until the input connectors support
>> is implemented properly.
>>
>> It's a partial revert due other patches added on top of mentioned commit
>> not allowing the commit to be reverted cleanly anymore. But all the code
>> related to the DT parsing logic and input entities creation are removed.
>>
>> > Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> what is the state of this patch? Was it forgotten or was the revert
> deemed unnecessary?
>

I think that was just forgotten. That code still needs to be reverted
since the DT patch was also reverted.

Albeit the code is harmless since should be a no-op if a connectors DT
node isn't found.

> regards
> Philipp
>

Best regards,
Javier