[PATCH v2 01/13] devicetree/bindings: display: Document common panel properties

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon Nov 21 16:48:15 UTC 2016


On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 05:28:01AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Document properties common to several display panels in a central
> location that can be referenced by the panel device tree bindings.
> 

Looks good. Just one comment...

[...]

> +Connectivity
> +------------
> +
> +- ports: Panels receive video data through one or multiple connections. While
> +  the nature of those connections is specific to the panel type, the
> +  connectivity is expressed in a standard fashion using ports as specified in
> +  the device graph bindings defined in
> +  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/graph.txt.

We allow panels to either use graph binding or be a child of the display 
controller. Using the graph is preferred, but in the simple cases just a 
child node is sufficient. This should be described here or somewhere in 
this doc.

Rob


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