Re: [PATCH] media: i2c: adv7343: fix the DT binding properties

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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:44:57AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Monday 23 September 2013 15:33:10 Stephen Warren wrote:

> > So I think you want to make the supply properties mandatory in DT (since
> > some form of supply is mandatory in HW), yet make the driver support
> > broken DTs which don't have those properties, by error-checking the
> > return value from regulator_get(). You might want to put a note into DT
> > saying that a previous version of the binding didn't require those
> > supply properties, so they may be missing from older DTs.

> Are there such devices in the wild ?

From v3.12 on the kernel will stub in a dummy supply if one isn't found
when using DT but I wouldn't mention that in the bindings since it's
very much fixing up broken DTs rather than a good idea.

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