Hi Laurent, On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 01:01:38AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > > > > If the hardware doesn't support lane remapping for CCP2, then that should > > > > > > > be reflected in DT bindings, i.e. data-lanes isn't relevant. There's no > > > > > > > need to check that here. > > > > > > > > > > > > Should the above check for CSI-2 be dropped as well then ? > > > > > > > > > > Same for CSI-2, too: if there's nothing to configure there (lane remapping) > > > > > there's no need to validate that part of the DT either. > > > > > > > > OK, I'll drop that. > > > > > > Actually, I'm wondering if it would make sense to tell the parsing > > > functions whether lane reordering is supported or not. The checks could > > > then be moved to the framework. What do you think ? > > > > I'm not sure how useful this check would be in the first place: if you have > > hardware that can reorder the lanes, the framework doesn't know what to > > check there (if anything) and otherwise there's little point in the > > entire check. > > Isn't it good to tell users that something is wrong instead of accepting > the invalid configuration and let them wonder why the device isn't > working ? Users in this case would be system integrators, not end > users, but we have lots of debugging information in the kernel aimed for > them already. In which of the two cases above the framework could do something useful there? For devices where you can reorder the lanes or for those where you can't? -- Sakari Ailus
