Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] dt-bindings: media: qcom,venus: Add context bank subnodes to common schema

On 06/08/2026 12:07, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> I tend to think - absent an obvious an immediately applicable fix these 
> two drivers must be marked BROKEN, the alternative is to apply Daniel's 
> fix and then live with the results for the bindings.
> 
> Since the DT schema change is still under debate - what alternative is 
> there ?
> 
> I'm not far off sending that patch now myself because I'm not seeing 
> urgency on fixing this and TBH that's pissing me off.
> 
> As a user of a system, I expect resonsible and honest behaviour wrt to 
> bugs, not architecture astronauty while my system can still reset 
> despite perfectly functional fixes being available.
> 
> Great you want to do sub-nodes in DT. Not great, that's not agreed yet, 
> even more not great - the venus stuff isn't even on the list.
> 
> Please indicate what should be done for -stable this week else both of 
> these drivers need to be marked BROKEN.

Nothing should be done for stable. Or rather: you can do whatever you
wish for the stable, because we discuss here mainline, not stable kernel.

There is no problem here "devices running stable kernel are affected"
which we are solving.

The only problem we are solving is "devices running mainline kernel are
affected". Fix this one and stable will follow.

Best regards,
Krzysztof