On Tuesday 07 August 2012 02:21 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:58:17PM +0530, Chandrabhanu Mahapatra wrote:
>> OMAP4 checks are removed from VENC to provide it a cleaner interface. These
>> checks were introduced by patches "HACK: OMAP: DSS2: VENC: disable VENC on 
>> OMAP4
>> to prevent crash" (ba02fa37de) by Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkei...@ti.com> and
>> "OMAPDSS: VENC: fix NULL pointer dereference in DSS2 VENC sysfs debug attr on
>> OMAP4" (cc1d3e032d)  by Danny Kukawka <danny.kuka...@bisect.de> to prevent 
>> VENC
>> from crashing OMAP4 kernel. An alternative approach is used to do the same in
>> later patches.
> in later patches ? This means you're causing a regression here. Just
> swap the patches around to avoid it.
>
Hi! Yes I do agree with you. But as VENC is disabled on omap4, the basic
idea here was to remove unnecessary cpu_is checks and achieve the same
through a better approach.

-- 
Chandrabhanu Mahapatra
Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd.

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