Re: [RFC PATCH] dt-bindings: display: ti,tfp410.txt: convert to yaml

Sam Ravnborg
2020-05-11T16:26:46Z

Hi Ricardo.

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 04:59:11PM +0200, Ricardo Cañuelo wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> What's your opinion on this?

I'm not Rob, but anyway.
>
> Some context: It's about bindings that define signed integer properties
> with range checks that go below and above zero. The schema checker fails
> because, apparently, it interprets every cell value as an uint32, which
> makes the range check fail for negative numbers.
>
> > > > b) Redefine this property to be closer to the datasheet description
> > > > (ie. unsigned integers from 0 to 7) and adapt the driver accordingly.
> > > > This would also let us define its range properly using minimum and
> > > > maximum properties for it.
> > > >
> > > > I think (b) is the right thing to do but I want to know your
> > > > opinion. Besides, I don't have this hardware at hand and if I updated
> > > > the driver I wouldn't be able to test it.

Based on the discussions option b) above seems like the best compromise.

Sam