Re: [PATCH v9 23/24] dt: bindings: smiapp: Document lens-focus and flash properties

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On Fri 2017-09-08 16:42:26, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 03:36:52PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > Document optional lens-focus and flash properties for the smiapp driver.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/nokia,smia.txt | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/nokia,smia.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/nokia,smia.txt
> > > index 855e1faf73e2..a052969365d9 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/nokia,smia.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/nokia,smia.txt
> > > @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Optional properties
> > >  - nokia,nvm-size: The size of the NVM, in bytes. If the size is not given,
> > >    the NVM contents will not be read.
> > >  - reset-gpios: XSHUTDOWN GPIO
> > > +- flash-leds: One or more phandles to refer to flash LEDs
> > > +- lens-focus: Phandle for lens focus
> > 
> > Should we simply reference the generic documentation here? If it needs
> > changing, it will be easier changing single place.
> 
> Good question.
> 
> Ideally the properties at least would never change; we do have a common
> parser for the properties which is part of the patchset so in theory it
> would be possible to change the documentation in a backward-compatible way.
> 
> I added these properties as well as all the other properties supported by
> the sensor driver are documented here. That has been the practice AFAIU,
> albeit omissions do happen occasionally.
> 
> The issue I see with omitting the documentation here is that the user
> otherwise won't know whether a driver uses a given property or not: it
> shouldn't be necessary to read driver code to write DT source.

I see... OTOH documentation in central place _is_ a bit more verbose:

+- flash-leds: An array of phandles, each referring to a flash LED, a sub-node
+  of the LED driver device node.

What about:

flash-leds, lens-focus: see <reference to central place>

?

Thanks,
									Pavel
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