Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: display: bridge: fork out ti,ds90c185 from lvds-transmitter

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Dec 28 2018 - 12:42:53 EST


On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:54 PM Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2018-12-27 22:27, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 02:04:47PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote:
> >> From: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> DS90C185 has a shutdown pin which does not fit in the lvds-transmitter
> >> binding, which is meant to be generic.
> >>
> >> The sister chip DS90C187 is similar to DS90C185, describe it here as well.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> .../bindings/display/bridge/lvds-transmitter.txt | 8 +---
> >> .../bindings/display/bridge/ti,ds90c185.txt | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,ds90c185.txt
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/lvds-transmitter.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/lvds-transmitter.txt
> >> index 50220190c203..fd39ad34c383 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/lvds-transmitter.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/lvds-transmitter.txt
> >> @@ -22,13 +22,7 @@ among others.
> >>
> >> Required properties:
> >>
> >> -- compatible: Must be one or more of the following
> >> - - "ti,ds90c185" for the TI DS90C185 FPD-Link Serializer
> >> - - "lvds-encoder" for a generic LVDS encoder device
> >> -
> >> - When compatible with the generic version, nodes must list the
> >> - device-specific version corresponding to the device first
> >> - followed by the generic version.
> >> +- compatible: Must be "lvds-encoder"
> >>
> >> Required nodes:
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,ds90c185.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,ds90c185.txt
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 000000000000..a13e778503e6
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/ti,ds90c185.txt
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
> >> +Texas Instruments FPD-Link (LVDS) Serializer
> >> +--------------------------------------------
> >> +
> >> +The DS90C185 and DS90C187 are low-power serializers for portable
> >> +battery-powered applications that reduces the size of the RGB
> >> +interface between the host GPU and the display.
> >> +
> >> +Required properties:
> >> +
> >> +- compatible: Should be
> >> + "ti,ds90c185", "lvds-encoder" for the TI DS90C185 FPD-Link Serializer
> >> + "ti,ds90c187", "lvds-encoder" for the TI DS90C187 FPD-Link Serializer
> >> +
> >> +Optional properties:
> >> +
> >> +- pwdn-gpios: Power down control GPIO (the PDB pin, active-low)
> >
> > powerdown-gpios is the standard name.
>
> The lvds-encoder driver handles this binding, and that driver incidentally
> also implements the thine,thc63lvdm83d binding which already has a
> pwdn-gpios property. Should the thine,thc63lvdm83d binding be updated and
> the driver be made to support both properties?
>
> Since the lvds-encoder driver never had support for the pwdn-gpios (at least
> not upstream) I suppose there is also the option to simply go with
> powerdown-gpios as you suggest and not bother with support for the
> pwdn-gpios property.

It is probably safe to just change it given it is not used in any dts
nor supported in the driver.

Rob