Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] video: fbdev: pxafb: initial devicetree conversion

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 07/12/15 22:50, Robert Jarzmik wrote:

>> It seems that at least "depth" is missing from the binding document.
> You're right.
> 
> Actually depth is not a "hardware" caracteristic. Moreover it's just used as an
> overlay for pxafb_set_pixfmt() to superseed var->bits_per_pixel. I'm wondering
> if the right path for of_get_pxafb_mode_info() would be to remove completely
> depth, and leave it initialized at 0 for the DT case.
> 
> What do you think of this approach ? The other one would be to modify the
> binding, and yet I feel this depth doesn't belong to the binding, it's my patch
> which requires another spin IMHO.

Yes, we should avoid non-hardware relate properties in the .dts files if
at all possible. If the driver works fine without the property, I think
it's fine to remove it. If it is required it needs to be added to the
binding document.

 Tomi

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