Re: [PATCH 10/12] video: Add ADV751[13] DT bindings documentation

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Hi Laurent,

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2014 09:06:46 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Laurent Pinchart
>> <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > +- adi,input-style: The input components arrangement variant (1, 2 or 3).
>>
>> What's the meaning of the numerical values 1, 2, and 3?
>>
>> I found this code in "[PATCH 11/12] drm: Add adv7511 encoder driver":
>>
>> +       input_style = config->input_style == 1 ? 2
>> +                   : (config->input_style == 2 ? 1 : 3);
>>
>> which didn't really help much ;-)
>
> :-)
>
> The ADV751[13]W? datasheets document all the supported input formats. They're
> split in categories, each of them having multiple variants called styles. The
> styles are just numbered 1, 2 and 3 in the tables that describe the formats,
> and there's a register field used to select a style. For some reason style 1
> maps to register value 2, style 2 to register value 1, and style 3 to register
> value 3. Go figure...

Thanks, that explains it.

Then I suggest to reflect this in the binding:

    - adi,input-style: The input components arrangement variant (1, 2 or 3),
           as listed in the datasheet.

and in the code, e.g. by translating the values using a mapping array?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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