Re: [PATCH 01/10] dt-bindings: media: mediatek,vcodec: Remove dma-ranges property

[Yong Wu (吴勇)]

On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 09:06 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 16/01/2023 09:01, Yong Wu (吴勇) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-01-13 at 09:25 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > On 13/01/2023 07:01, Yong Wu wrote:
> > > > MediaTek iommu has already controlled the masters' iova ranges
> > > > by
> > > > the
> > > > master's larb/port id. then the dma-ranges property is
> > > > unnecessary
> > > > for
> > > Sentences in English always start with a capital letter, however
> > > also
> > > they do not start with "Then". Make it a proper a proper
> > > sentence.
> > 
> > Sorry for the syntax issues. I think it is "," before "then".
> > 
> > > > the master's node. the master is vcodec here.
> > > 
> > > Unnecessary or invalid? 
> > 
> > For mt8195, It is unnecessary. For the other SoC which doesn't use
> > parent/child node, the property is invalid, however, there is no
> > vcodec
> > node have this property in this case in the current upstream dts
> > nodes.
> > 
> > > Don't you depend now on some feature of driver
> > > added for example recently?
> > 
> > No. It doesn't depend on any the other patches. Just depend
> > on the code changing in this patchset. I just put the dt-binding
> > at the beginning of this series.
> 
> So this is an ABI change where you expect no upstream users to be
> affected? Why you do not clarify it in commit msg?

Sorry I missed a venc node. In [9/10] of this series, I deleted this
property for mt8195 venc node, this has a little affect. 

VENC would like to locate the IOVA range of 4G-8G. Without this
patchset, It will fallback to 0-4GB. But this is not a fatal issue. It 
also work fine with 0-4GB iova. I will comment this in the commit
message in the next version.

> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Tiffany Lin <tiffany.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Andrew-CT Chen <andrew-ct.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > There is little point in storing output of get_maintainers.pl
> > > forever
> > > in
> > > the git log. If you need it for some reason, please keep it after
> > > -
> > > --.
> > 
> > I did get the list from get_maintainers.pl. Sorry that I didn't
> > differentiate.
> 
> Getting the list from get_maintainers.pl is correct but storing it
> forever in git log is really unnecessary. It's not useful. It's just
> automated output, reproducible at any given time.

This patchset crosses several domains. This patch is about vcodec, the
next one is about jpeg and the later ones are about iommu.
The reviewers may be different, thus I use "Cc:" here. is this OK in
this case? or I should remove this, and put all of them in the cc list
of the mail.

Thanks.

> > 
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>