Re: [PATCH v2 01/18] dt-bindings: panel: lvds: Document power-supply property

[Rob Herring]

Please CC DT list.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The power-supply property is used by a vast majority of panels, including
> panel-simple. Let's document it as a common property
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt | 6 ++++++
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt   | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt
> index ec52c472c845..125ea68052af 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt
> @@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ used for panels that implement compatible control signals.
>    while active. Active high reset signals can be supported by inverting the
>    GPIO specifier polarity flag.
>
> +Power
> +-----
> +
> +- power-supply: many display panels need an additional power supply in
> +  order to be fully powered-up. For such panels, power-supply contains
> +  a phandle to the regulator powering the panel.
>
>  Backlight
>  ---------
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt
> index b938269f841e..250850a2150b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Optional properties:
>  - label: See panel-common.txt.
>  - gpios: See panel-common.txt.
>  - backlight: See panel-common.txt.
> +- power-supply: See panel-common.txt.

simple-panel.txt should do the same.

Really, I'd like to see panel-common.txt and simple-panel.txt merged
and simple-panel.txt removed altogether. But there are a lot of
references back to simple-panel.txt. A given panel still needs to say
what common properties it uses or doesn't use. Omitting a property
like power-supply is ambiguous and can either mean "I only have 1
supply" or "I haven't thought about supplies yet there are more than
1".

Rob