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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: maxime.ripard@bootlin.com
Cc: Yong Deng <yong.deng@magewell.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	"\"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Jacob Chen <jacob-chen@iotwrt.com>,
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	Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
	Todor Tomov <todor.tomov@linaro.org>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
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	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infra
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 1/2] dt-bindings: media: Add Allwinner V3s Camera Sensor Interface (CSI)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:38:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1568838.d8CnAYTeDB@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180926103547.5ubb6xjkl7xngmfg@flea>

Hi Maxime,

On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 13:35:47 EEST maxime.ripard@bootlin.com wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:19:34PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > +Endpoint node properties for CSI1
> > > +---------------------------------
> > 
> > Should you list the CSI0 properties as well ? As the driver in patch 2/2
> > doesn't support the CSI-2 interface I assume you have left out CSI0 for
> > now, but it should still be listed in the bindings. I'm fine with fixing
> > this as a follow-up patch to avoid missing the v4.20 merge window, but if
> > you end up resubmitting the series, could you please address the problem
> > ?
> 
> That driver is not available, and the documentation isn't either, so
> there's no easy way to tell which properties are going to be needed
> before doing the actual work of reverse engineering it and writing a
> driver for it. Unfortunately...

While DT bindings should be independent from driver implementations, I agree 
it's difficult to develop good bindings without hardware documentation and 
without at least one working driver implementation.

How about just explicitly stating that these bindings don't support CSI0 yet ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-26 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-26  8:40 [PATCH v11 1/2] dt-bindings: media: Add Allwinner V3s Camera Sensor Interface (CSI) Yong Deng
2018-09-26 10:19 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-26 10:35   ` maxime.ripard-LDxbnhwyfcJBDgjK7y7TUQ
2018-09-26 10:38     ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2018-09-26 10:40       ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-27  0:59       ` Yong
2018-09-28  9:38 ` Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28  9:45   ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-28 10:23     ` Sakari Ailus
     [not found]       ` <20180928102345.r2g342tg5mgcwfw6-z7MJbOB4PBP+e+fPlCVrcFDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>
2018-09-28 11:10         ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2018-09-28 12:56           ` Sakari Ailus
     [not found]             ` <20180928125601.6ye5tvrmh57amvh5-z7MJbOB4PBP+e+fPlCVrcFDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>
2018-09-28 13:36               ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-28 13:42                 ` Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 13:42             ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2018-09-28 14:47               ` Sakari Ailus
2018-10-17  7:33 ` [linux-sunxi] " Jagan Teki

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