Re: [PATCH 18/23] dt-bindings: media: imx258: Add alternate compatible strings

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 05:17:04PM -0600, git@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are a number of variants of the imx258 modules that can not
> be differentiated at runtime, so add compatible strings for them.

But you are only adding 1 variant.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luigi311 <git@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/sony,imx258.yaml          | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/sony,imx258.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/sony,imx258.yaml
> index bee61a443b23..c7856de15ba3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/sony,imx258.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/sony,imx258.yaml
> @@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ description: |-
>    type stacked image sensor with a square pixel array of size 4208 x 3120. It
>    is programmable through I2C interface.  Image data is sent through MIPI
>    CSI-2.
> +  There are a number of variants of the sensor which cannot be detected at
> +  runtime, so multiple compatible strings are required to differentiate these.

That's more reasoning/why for the patch than description of the h/w.

>  properties:
>    compatible:
> -    const: sony,imx258
> +    - enum:
> +        - sony,imx258
> +        - sony,imx258-pdaf

How do I know which one to use? Please define what PDAF means somewhere 
as well as perhaps what the original/default variant is or isn't.

>  
>    assigned-clocks: true
>    assigned-clock-parents: true
> -- 
> 2.42.0
>