diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO
index ec277ece47af..00aa304a7e36 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/TODO
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
-Before this stateless decoder driver can leave the staging area:
-* The Request API needs to be stabilized;
-* The codec-specific controls need to be thoroughly reviewed to ensure they
-  cover all intended uses cases;
-* Userspace support for the Request API needs to be reviewed;
-* Another stateless decoder driver should be submitted;
-* At least one stateless encoder driver should be submitted.
+This driver suffers from a bad initial design that results in various aspects
+being intricated, making it difficult to scale to new codecs and to add encoding
+support in the future.
+
+Before leaving the staging area, it should be reworked to clearly distinguish
+between different aspects:
+- platform, with resources management, interrupt handler, watchdog,
+  v4l2 and m2m devices registration;
+- proc, with video device registration and related operations;
+- context, with m2m context, queue and controls management;
+- engine, with each individual codec job execution and codec-specific
+  operation callbacks;
+
+This will make it possible to register two different procs (decoder and
+encoder) while sharing significant common infrastructure, common v4l2 and m2m
+devices but exposing distinct video devices.