Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] media: ipu-bridge: Request non-continuous clock for ov5693 on IPU6

[Fernando Rimoli]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the reviews on 1-3.

You're right that keying on both the PCI ID and the sensor is a bit awkward. My
reasoning for scoping it that tightly was caution rather than a known IPU3
failure: I only have IPU6 hardware (Surface Pro 9), so I couldn't confirm that
gating the ov5693's clock lane is safe on the IPU3 CSI-2 receiver, and I didn't
want to risk regressing the existing cio2 + ov5693 users (the INT33BE Surface
Pro/Book devices) that work today with the free-running default.

For what it's worth, from the receiver side IPU3 looks agnostic to the flag:
ipu3-cio2 only consumes bus.mipi_csi2.num_data_lanes from the parsed endpoint
and programs its D-PHY Rx timing (clk_termen/clk_settle) the same way regardless
of V4L2_MBUS_CSI2_NONCONTINUOUS_CLOCK, it never looks at that flag. So the open
question is purely sensor-side: whether the ov5693 idling its clock lane in LP11
(bit 5) upsets the cio2 D-PHY's lock. I can't answer that without IPU3 hardware.

If your test tomorrow shows cio2 + ov5693 still streams fine with
clock-noncontinuous set, I'm happy to drop the ipu6_pci_tbl check entirely and
just request the property for the ov5693 unconditionally in v4 which removes
the PCI quirk and is much cleaner. (The sensor-driver side already no-ops when
the flag is absent, so nothing else needs to change.)

If it turns out IPU3 doesn't like it, then the PCI gate is doing real work and
I'd keep it, but I can add a comment making that rationale explicit.

Either way I'll respin once we know. Thanks a lot for offering to test on IPU3,
that's the one platform I can't cover.

Thanks,
Fernando