Hi Niklas,
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:05:46AM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> On 2021-04-15 22:09:12 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 05:53:46PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> > > When converting the binding to use the video-interfaces schemas the node
> > > port@0 was incorrectly made a mandatory property.
> > >
> > > The port@0 node describes which CSI-2 transmitter the R-Car CSI-2
> > > receiver is connected too. Not all boards connects all CSI-2 receivers
> > > to an CSI-2 transmitter.
> >
> > Ports are properties of the device, they should always be there,
> > regardless of connections. It's the endpoints that describe connections.
>
> I understand what you are saying and if that is the way things are done
> I'm fine with it. As this was brought to light by a recent change in the
> bindings I wish to understand if this was always the case the bindings
> have been wrong all along or not.
>
> I only ask as because if we keep the port@0 mandatory there will be
> board files that needs to add empty port@0 nodes as we know they are not
> used. And as the media bindings are already quiet large for some Renesas
> boards I want to understand this before spewing out a lot of patches
> adding empty nodes ;-)
In my opinion port@0 should be in the SoC .dtsi, not in the board .dts.
Individual boards can then add endpoints when the CSI-2 receiver is
connected. Would that make sense for you ?
> > > Fixes: 066a94e28a23e04c ("media: dt-bindings: media: Use graph and video-interfaces schemas")
> > > Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,csi2.yaml | 1 -
> > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,csi2.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,csi2.yaml
> > > index 20396f1be9993461..395484807dd5ed47 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,csi2.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/renesas,csi2.yaml
> > > @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ properties:
> > > modules connected the CSI-2 receiver.
> > >
> > > required:
> > > - - port@0
> > > - port@1
> > >
> > > required:
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
