Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] media: dt-bindings: ov5645: Convert OV5645 binding to a schema

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:27:53PM +0100, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Thank you for the review.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:05 PM Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 1:35 PM Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
> > >
> > > Convert the simple OV5645 Device Tree binding to json-schema.
> > >
> > > The previous binding marked the below properties as required which was a
> > > driver requirement and not the device requirement so just drop them from
> > > the required list during the conversion.
> > > - clock-frequency
> > > - enable-gpios
> > > - reset-gpios
> > >
> > > Also drop the "clock-names" property as we have a single clock source for
> > > the sensor and the driver has been updated to drop the clk referencing by
> > > name.
> >
> > Driver requirements are the ABI!
> >
> > This breaks a kernel without the driver change and a DTB that has
> > dropped the properties.
> >
> I already have a patch for the driver [0] which I missed to include
> along with the series.

You completely miss the point. Read the first sentence again. Changing 
driver requirements changes the ABI.

This breaks the ABI. The driver patch does not help that.


> > Also, with 'clock-names' dropped, you've just introduced a bunch of
> > warnings on other people's platforms. Are you going to 'fix' all of
> > them?
> >
> Yes I will fix them, once the patch driver patch [0] is merged in.

Why? You are just making extra work. We have enough warnings as-is to 
fix.

Rob