Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] media: dt-bindings: alvium: add document YAML binding

[Conor Dooley]

Hey Tommaso,

On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 03:19:24PM +0200, Tommaso Merciai wrote:

> +  alliedvision,lp2hs-delay-us:
> +    maximum: 150000
> +    description: |
> +      Low power to high speed delay time.
> +
> +      If the value is larger than 0, the camera forces a reset of all
> +      D-PHY lanes for the duration specified by this property. All lanes
> +      will transition to the low-power state and back to the high-speed
> +      state after the delay. Otherwise the lanes will transition to and
> +      remain in the high-speed state immediately after power on.
> +
> +      This is meant to help CSI-2 receivers synchronizing their D-PHY
> +      RX.

Since this new version was posted before I got a chance to reply, I
still don't think it makes sense to allow 0 & then special case it,
when testing for the presence of a property is trivial.
The property should describe some behaviour/property of the hardware,
not be a mechanism to convey what you want to write into registers.

I don't really get why you'd not do:
	If present, the camera forces a reset of all D-PHY lanes, for the
	duration specified by this property. All lanes will transition to
	the low-power state and back to the high-speed state after the
	delay.
	Otherwise the lanes will transition to and remain in the high-speed
	state immediately after power on.

> +static int alvium_get_dt_data(struct alvium_dev *alvium)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev = &alvium->i2c_client->dev;
> +	struct device_node *node = dev->of_node;
> +	struct fwnode_handle *endpoint;
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	if (!node)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	ret = fwnode_property_read_u32(dev_fwnode(dev),
> +			  "alliedvision,lp2hs-delay-us",
> +			  &alvium->lp2hs_delay);
> +	if (ret)
> +		dev_info(dev, "lp2hs-delay-us not found\n");

And this print, which I also don't understand the presence of as
well behaving driver should be quiet, goes away.

Cheers,
Conor.

> +
> +	endpoint = fwnode_graph_get_next_endpoint(dev_fwnode(dev), NULL);
> +	if (!endpoint) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "endpoint node not found\n");
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (v4l2_fwnode_endpoint_alloc_parse(endpoint, &alvium->ep)) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "could not parse endpoint\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (alvium->ep.bus_type != V4L2_MBUS_CSI2_DPHY) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "unsupported bus type\n");
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!alvium->ep.nr_of_link_frequencies) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "no link frequencies defined");
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	dev_info(dev, "freq: %llu\n",
> +				    alvium->ep.link_frequencies[0]);
> +	dev_info(dev, "lanes: %d\n",
> +				    alvium->ep.bus.mipi_csi2.num_data_lanes);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

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