Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: lcdif: Add support for specifying display with timings

[Marek Vasut]

On 9/25/24 12:57 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 07:53:57PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 9/23/24 3:57 PM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > > Up till now the fsl,lcdif.yaml was requiring the "port" property as a
> > > must have to specify the display interface on iMX devices.
> > >
> > > However, it shall also be possible to specify the display only with
> > > passing its timing parameters (h* and v* ones) via "display" property:
> > > (as in
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/display-timings.yaml).
> >
> > Timings should go into panel node, not into scanout engine node.
> >
> > See e.g. panel-timings in arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-phg.dts , in
> > your case the compatible might be "panel-dpi" .
>
> I agree, but if this is already in use, we should allow it. We can mark
> it deprecated though.
I don't think it is in use yet, at least not in upstream, so let's not 
allow this.