[PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: drm/bridge: Add no-hpd property

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Jayesh,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 07:54:39PM +0530, Jayesh Choudhary wrote:
> From: Rahul T R <r-ravikumar at ti.com>
> 
> The mhdp bridge can work without its HPD pin hooked up to the connector,
> but the current bridge driver throws an error when hpd line is not
> connected to the connector. For such cases, we need an indication for
> no-hpd, using which we can bypass the hpd detection and instead use the
> auxiliary channels connected to the DP connector to confirm the
> connection.
> So add no-hpd property to the bindings, to disable hpd when not
> connected or unusable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rahul T R <r-ravikumar at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jayesh Choudhary <j-choudhary at ti.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/cdns,mhdp8546.yaml   | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/cdns,mhdp8546.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/cdns,mhdp8546.yaml
> index c2b369456e4e..3a6c6d837593 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/cdns,mhdp8546.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/cdns,mhdp8546.yaml
> @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ properties:
>    interrupts:
>      maxItems: 1
>  
> +  cdns,no-hpd:
> +    type: boolean
> +    description:
> +      Set if the HPD line on the bridge isn't hooked up to anything or is
> +      otherwise unusable.

I'm fine with the non connected part, but concerned with "otherwise
unusable". It's very vague and could thus be abused. Do you have
particular use cases in mind for this ? If so, restricting this to those
use cases, or at least giving examples, would help.

> +
>    ports:
>      $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/ports
>  

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart