Re: [PATCH 07/13] dt-bindings: media: camss: Add qcom,sm8550-camss binding

[Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir.zapolskiy@linaro.org>]

Hi Bryan,

On 9/18/24 01:40, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> On 13/09/2024 06:06, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>> On 9/13/24 01:41, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>>> On 12/09/2024 21:57, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>>>>> 3. Required not optional in the yaml
>>>>>
>>>>>        => You can't use the PHY without its regulators
>>>>
>>>> No, the supplies shall be optional, since it's absolutely possible to
>>>> have
>>>> such a board, where supplies are merely not connected to the SoC.
>>>
>>> For any _used_ PHY both supplies are certainly required.
>>>
>>> That's what the yaml/dts check for this should achieve.
>>
>> I believe it is technically possible by writing an enormously complex
>> scheme, when all possible "port" cases and combinations are listed.
>>
>> Do you see any simpler way? Do you insist that it is utterly needed?
> 
> I asked Krzysztof about this offline.
> 
> He said something like
> 
> Quote:
> This is possible, but I think not between child nodes.
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11-rc7/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/example-schema.yaml#L194
> 
> You could require something in children, but not in parent node. For
> children something around:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.4-rc7/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qcom,ipa.yaml#L174
> 
> allOf:
>     - if:
>         required:
>           - something-in-parent
>       then:
>         properties:
>           child-node:
>             required:
>               - something-in-child
> 
> I will see if I can turn that into a workable proposal/patch.
> 

thank you for pushing my review request forward.

Overall I believe making supply properties as optional ones is sufficient,
technically straightforward and merely good enough, thus please let me
ask you to ponder on this particular variant one more time.

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Best wishes,
Vladimir