Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] dt-bindings: display: panel: Add Novatek NT37705

From: Rob Herring

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 10:16:58 EST


On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 04:00:49PM +0200, Luca Weiss wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 11:35 PM CEST, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Luca Weiss wrote:
> >> Novatek NT37705 is a display driver IC used to drive AMOLED DSI panels.
> >>
> >> Describe it and the panel in the Fairphone (Gen. 6) (BJ631JHM-T71-D900
> >> from BOE) using it.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/81a3c207-4d8f-490f-8e2a-6f3f4c2acd35@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >> Signed-off-by: Luca Weiss <luca.weiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> .../bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt37705.yaml | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt37705.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt37705.yaml
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 000000000000..1c796599f6fc
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/novatek,nt37705.yaml
> >
> > Did novatek,nt37705 get dropped as a compatible, but the filename
> > remains?
>
> That's how himax,hx83112a.yaml and himax,hx83112b.yaml are as well,
> which I have upstreamed before. I *really* don't have strong opinions
> either way, but as in the email referred to in "Link:" the versions I
> have upstreamed before have been accepted without issue, and even
> discussion pointing in the way I have done things here.

Okay. I guess just naming after the first panel would be odd for
everyone else.

Rob