Messages in this thread | | | From | Krzysztof Kozlowski <> | Date | Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:42:37 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 23/33] ARM: dts: exynos: Remove empty camera pinctrl configuration in Odroid X/U3 |
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 12:35, Sylwester Nawrocki <snawrocki@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 8/31/20 10:38, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 10:31, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote: > >> On 30.08.2020 15:51, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > >>> The camera's pinctrl configuration is simply empty and not effective. > >>> Remove it to fix dtbs_check warning: > >>> > >>> arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4412-odroidx.dt.yaml: camera: pinctrl-0: True is not of type 'array' > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> > >> > >> I think that this was intentional to properly enable support for > >> mem-2-mem mode in Exynos4-IS (FIMC), but I'm not sure what are the > >> default values if no pinctrl properties are provided. Sylwester, could > >> you comment? > > > > Indeed it could be intentional... I see now errors: > > [ 33.752203] s5p-fimc-md soc:camera: Failed to get pinctrl: -19 > > > > I wonder why getting an empty pinctrl is needed... maybe the driver > > should accept missing pinctrl? > > It might have been better to have the pinctrl properties optional, as there > might be boards without the image sensor attached and FIMC could still be > used in memory-to-memory mode, as Marek pointed out. But it seems too late > now to change that. The binding defines the pinctrl properties as required > (Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/samsung-fimc.txt) and we need to > keep them in dtses.
You can always make a required property optional and it is not a break of ABI. The other way around would be a break. Why then not changing the driver to accept optional pinctrl?
Best regards, Krzysztof
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