Re: [PATCH 17/19] media: dt-bindings: ti,ds90ub960: Add "i2c-addr" link property

Hi,

On 11/01/2025 12:31, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 11:14:17AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

quoted

From: Jai Luthra <redacted>

The serializer's I2C address on the FPD-Link bus is usually communicated
to the deserializer once the forward-channel is established. But in some
cases it might be necessary to program the serializer (over the
back-channel) before the forward-channel is established.

This can be used e.g. to correct serializer configuration which
otherwise would prevent the FC to be enabled.

Add a new optional property to specify the I2C address of the
serializer.

Signed-off-by: Jai Luthra <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>

Why only these folks? Why not all of the maintainers?

The whole series is sent to the media list and maintainers. I thought 
this single patch doesn't warrant sending the whole series to DT list 
and maintainers, so I cc'd them here.

Anyway, Please drop the autogenerated scripts/get_maintainer.pl CC-entries from
commit msg. There is no single need to store automated output of
get_maintainers.pl in the git log. It can be easily re-created at any
given time, thus its presence in the git history is redundant and
obfuscates the log.

I think that's a valid point.

I'm using b4. I don't know how to do that with b4, but I'll look into it.

quoted

---
  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/ti,ds90ub960.yaml | 7 +++++++
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/ti,ds90ub960.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/ti,ds90ub960.yaml
index 0b71e6f911a8..e17b508b6409 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/ti,ds90ub960.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/ti,ds90ub960.yaml

@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ properties:
                address on the I2C bus where the deserializer resides are
                forwarded to the serializer.
  
+          i2c-addr:
+            $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32

Why isn't this part of reg, if that's the same device? If that is not
the same device, you are not expected to encode addresses of other
devices in this device. Address of 'foo' is not a property of device
'bar'. Phandles or graphs express relationships between devices.

With the understanding of the HW I have right now, I would have added 
the i2c address as the address of the serializer node, with reg 
property. I would probably also do a few other changes to the bindings...

But as we already have the current bindings, adding the i2c-addr felt 
like an easy way to keep backwards compatibility and add the address of 
the serializer.

However, thinking about this more, maybe we could just go and add the 
address of the serializer with reg, in the ds90ub953 bindings. It's the 
ub960 driver that needs the address, but it shouldn't be much trouble to 
get that from the ub953's data.

But we need to keep the address optional to keep the backwards 
compatibility. If it's not defined, the ub960 will automatically receive 
the serializer's address when the link goes up (as it is handled now).

  Tomi