Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] [media] of: move graph helpers from drivers/media/v4l2-core to drivers/of

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 21/03/14 16:13, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Tomi,
> 
> On Friday 21 March 2014 15:37:17 Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> On 21/03/14 00:32, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>> The OF graph bindings documentation could just specify the ports node as
>>> optional and mandate individual device bindings to specify it as mandatory
>>> or forbidden (possibly with a default behaviour to avoid making all
>>> device bindings too verbose).
>>
>> Isn't it so that if the device has one port, it can always do without
>> 'ports', but if it has multiple ports, it always has to use 'ports' so
>> that #address-cells and #size-cells can be defined?
> 
> You can put the #address-cells and #size-cells property in the device node 
> directly without requiring a ports subnode.

Ah, right. So 'ports' is only needed when the device node has other
children nodes than the ports and those nodes need different
#address-cells and #size-cells than the ports.

In that case it sounds fine to leave it for the driver bindings to decide.

 Tomi

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