Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] drm/msm/hdmi: deprecate non standard gpio properties.

[Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>]

On Mon 10 Aug 15:07 PDT 2015, Rob Herring wrote:

[..]
> >> -- qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-clk-gpio: ddc clk pin
> >> -- qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-data-gpio: ddc data pin
> >> -- qcom,hdmi-tx-hpd-gpio: hpd pin
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-clk-gpios: ddc clk pin
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-data-gpios: ddc data pin
> 
> The driver doesn't appear to do anything other than set these gpios
> high. Presumably you would ultimately do a bit-bang i2c bus for these?
> At that point, aren't you going to want to use the i2c-gpio binding?
> 
> I think this binding has bigger issues like why is it not using the
> hdmi-connector binding which has a standard "hpd-gpios" property
> already. I can't really single out this binding though. There's a lot
> of crap when it comes to DRM related bindings.
> 

Shouldn't these pins just be muxed to the hdmi block in pinctl?

I know Rob had something wrt the detect pin (hdp), but the others should
never be gpios(?) Isn't this just a reminder of the codeaurora tree
gpio_requesting all pins "just to be safe"?

> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-hpd-gpios: hpd pin
> >>  - core-vdda-supply: phandle to supply regulator
> >>  - hdmi-mux-supply: phandle to mux regulator
> >>
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-clk-gpio: (deprecated) use
> >> +     "qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-clk-gpios" instead
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-data-gpio: (deprecated) use
> >> +     "qcom,hdmi-tx-ddc-data-gpios" instead
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-hpd-gpio: (deprecated) use
> >> +     "qcom,hdmi-tx-hpd-gpios" instead
> >> +
> >>  Optional properties:
> >> -- qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-en-gpio: hdmi mux enable pin
> >> -- qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-sel-gpio: hdmi mux select pin
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-en-gpios: hdmi mux enable pin
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-sel-gpios: hdmi mux select pin
> >> +
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-en-gpio: (deprecated) use "qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-en-gpios"
> >> +     instead
> >> +- qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-sel-gpio: (deprecated) use "qcom,hdmi-tx-mux-sel-gpio"
> >> +     instead
> >>  - pinctrl-names: the pin control state names; should contain "default"
> >>  - pinctrl-0: the default pinctrl state (active)
> >>  - pinctrl-1: the "sleep" pinctrl state
> >
> > I don't see much use in listing that these properties are deprecated. We
> > already have code to catch the deprecated names, so having them in the
> > binding will at best be distracting.
> >
> > Anyway, I don't know if there's been any advice on this from the device
> > tree bindings maintainers, so adding devicetree@vger.kernel.org for
> > visibility.
> 
> If they need to be maintained, then marking them deprecated is
> perfectly fine IMO. Also, if the maintainers of platforms using this
> are okay with it, you can just switch it. Given there are no in tree
> dts files using this, it can be argued that there is no ABI.
> 

Part of some dev trees floating around no-one should have used these. So
I think we should just document the proper ones and have the drivers
support Rob's old properties until he's comfortable dropping them.

That way we have a documented way forward and Rob can run his backports
of this code without forking it.

Regards,
Bjorn