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[v2,01/18] dt-bindings: panel: lvds: Document power-supply property

Message ID 583a46dd967456aac07fb29529f74d91a10bdfeb.1511797218.git-series.maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com
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Series drm/sun4i: Add A83t LVDS support | expand

Commit Message

Maxime Ripard Nov. 27, 2017, 3:41 p.m. UTC
The power-supply property is used by a vast majority of panels, including
panel-simple. Let's document it as a common property

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt | 6 ++++++
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

Comments

Maxime Ripard Nov. 30, 2017, 3:30 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Rob,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:48:47AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Please CC DT list.

> 

> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Maxime Ripard

> <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> > The power-supply property is used by a vast majority of panels, including

> > panel-simple. Let's document it as a common property

> >

> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>

> > ---

> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt | 6 ++++++

> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt   | 1 +

> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

> >

> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt

> > index ec52c472c845..125ea68052af 100644

> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt

> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt

> > @@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ used for panels that implement compatible control signals.

> >    while active. Active high reset signals can be supported by inverting the

> >    GPIO specifier polarity flag.

> >

> > +Power

> > +-----

> > +

> > +- power-supply: many display panels need an additional power supply in

> > +  order to be fully powered-up. For such panels, power-supply contains

> > +  a phandle to the regulator powering the panel.

> >

> >  Backlight

> >  ---------

> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt

> > index b938269f841e..250850a2150b 100644

> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt

> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt

> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Optional properties:

> >  - label: See panel-common.txt.

> >  - gpios: See panel-common.txt.

> >  - backlight: See panel-common.txt.

> > +- power-supply: See panel-common.txt.

> 

> simple-panel.txt should do the same.


I'll make simple-panel do that then

> Really, I'd like to see panel-common.txt and simple-panel.txt merged

> and simple-panel.txt removed altogether. But there are a lot of

> references back to simple-panel.txt. A given panel still needs to say

> what common properties it uses or doesn't use. Omitting a property

> like power-supply is ambiguous and can either mean "I only have 1

> supply" or "I haven't thought about supplies yet there are more than

> 1".


While I agree with you here, and in general, power-supply should be
mandatory, do you expect me to fix all the panel bindings as part of
this serie?

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt
index ec52c472c845..125ea68052af 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-common.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@  used for panels that implement compatible control signals.
   while active. Active high reset signals can be supported by inverting the
   GPIO specifier polarity flag.
 
+Power
+-----
+
+- power-supply: many display panels need an additional power supply in
+  order to be fully powered-up. For such panels, power-supply contains
+  a phandle to the regulator powering the panel.
 
 Backlight
 ---------
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt
index b938269f841e..250850a2150b 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/panel-lvds.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@  Optional properties:
 - label: See panel-common.txt.
 - gpios: See panel-common.txt.
 - backlight: See panel-common.txt.
+- power-supply: See panel-common.txt.
 - data-mirror: If set, reverse the bit order described in the data mappings
   below on all data lanes, transmitting bits for slots 6 to 0 instead of
   0 to 6.