Re: [PATCH 6/9] dt-bindings: media: snps,dw-hdmi-rx: make hpd-gpios optional

[Conor Dooley]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 03:44:45PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> hpd-gpios is the +5V line of the HDMI connector, which the source drives
> to announce itself. On a board whose HDMI connector belongs to a bridge
> placed in front of this receiver, that line goes to the bridge and there
> is nothing for the receiver to sense, so the property cannot be
> provided.
> 
> Drop it from the required list and describe what it actually carries.
> The name is unfortunate: the hot plug detect line the receiver drives
> back at the source is a controller register, not this GPIO.
> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/snps,dw-hdmi-rx.yaml | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/snps,dw-hdmi-rx.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/snps,dw-hdmi-rx.yaml
> index 7e66dcbdfe2cb..9c6c377417c0b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/snps,dw-hdmi-rx.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/snps,dw-hdmi-rx.yaml
> @@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ properties:
>      maxItems: 1
>  
>    hpd-gpios:
> -    description: GPIO specifier for HPD.
> +    description:
> +      The +5V line of the HDMI connector, which the source drives to announce
> +      itself. Despite the name this is an input to the receiver; the hot plug
> +      detect line the receiver drives back at the source is handled inside the
> +      controller. Absent when the connector belongs to a bridge in front of
> +      this receiver rather than to the receiver itself.
>      maxItems: 1
>  
>    port:
> @@ -96,7 +101,6 @@ required:
>    - power-domains
>    - resets
>    - pinctrl-0
> -  - hpd-gpios

Would it be a good idea to require either this or ports, rather than
remove it? Just to keep the coverage up since I assume the feature is
required without the bridge. Perhaps that's not the case and this is
genuinely not needed.

>  
>  additionalProperties: false
>  
> 
> -- 
> 2.47.3
>

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