Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] dt-bindings: media: platform: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti Video Input Interface bindings

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 09:06:25AM +0000, yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp wrote:
> On Monday, January 23, 2023 4:26 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 06:01:27PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > On 17/01/2023 16:58, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 04:42:51PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > >> On 17/01/2023 16:26, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> +
> > > >>>> +          clock-lanes:
> > > >>>> +            description: VIIF supports 1 clock line
> > > >>>
> > > >>> s/line/lane/
> 
> Sorry for a late reply.
> I'll fix the description.
> 
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> +            const: 0
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I would also add
> > > >>>
> > > >>>           clock-noncontinuous: true
> > > >>>           link-frequencies: true
> > > >>>
> > > >>> to indicate that the above two properties are used by this device.
> > > >>
> > > >> No, these are coming from other schema and there is never need to
> > > >> mention some property to indicate it is more used than other case.
> > > >> None of the bindings are created such way, so this should not be exception.
> > > >
> > > > There are some bindings that do so, but that may not be a good
> > > > enough reason, as there's a chance I wrote those myself :-)
> > > >
> > > > I would have sworn that at some point in the past the schema
> > > > wouldn't have validated the example with this omitted. I'm not sure
> > > > if something changed or if I got this wrong.
> > >
> > > You probably think about case when using additionalProperties:false,
> > > where one has to explicitly list all valid properties. But not for
> > > unevaluatedProperties:false.
> > 
> > Possibly, yes.
> > 
> > > > video-interfaces.yaml defines lots of properties applicable to
> > > > endpoints. For a given device, those properties should be required
> > >
> > > required:
> > >  - foo
> > >
> > > > (easy, that's defined in the bindings), optional,
> > >
> > > by default (with unevaluatedProperties:false) or explicitly mention
> > > "foo: true (with additionalProperties:false)
> > >
> > > >  or forbidden. How do
> > >
> > > foo: false (with unevaluatedProperties:false) or by default (with
> > > additionalProperties:false)
> > 
> > I think we should default to the latter. video-interfaces.yaml contains lots of
> > properties endpoint properties, most bindings will use less than half of them, so
> > having to explicitly list all the ones that are not used with "foo: false" would be
> > quite inconvenient. Furthermore, I expect more properties to be added to
> > video-interfaces.yaml over time, and those shouldn't be accepted by default in
> > existing bindings.
> > 
> 
> I caught up with this discussion after some exercise on JSON schema validator.
> I'll remove "unevaluatedProperties: false" at the "endpoint" and add "aditionalProperties: false" instead.
> Furthermore, I'll explicitly declare required properties (required: ["foo"]) and optional properties (properties: {foo: true}) for Visconti.
> Is this correct understanding?

Looks very good to me !

> Are these changes also applied to "port", which is the parent node of
> the "endpoint" ?

That shouldn't be needed, as the "port" node should only have "endpoint"
children and no other properties (except for reg, and possibly
#address-cells and #size-cells of course).

> > > > we differentiate between the latter two cases ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart