Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] media: dt-bindings: alvium: add document YAML binding

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:07:42PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> Hey Laurent, Tommaso,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:36:56PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 05:54:03PM +0200, Tommaso Merciai wrote:
> 
> > > +  alliedvision,lp2hs-delay-us:
> > > +    maxItems: 1
> > > +    description:
> > > +      Low power to high speed delay time in microseconds.
> > 
> > You can drop "in microseconds", that's implied by the suffix.
> > 
> > > +      The purpose of this property is force a DPhy reset for the period
> > > +      described by the microseconds on the property, before it starts
> > > +      streaming. To be clear, with that value bigger than 0 the Alvium
> > > +      forces a dphy-reset on all lanes for that period. That means all
> > > +      lanes go up into low power state. This may help a csi2 rx ip to
> > > +      reset if that IP can't deal with a continous clock.
> > 
> > I'd like to propose what I think is a clearer version:
> > 
> >     description: |
> >       Low power to high speed delay time.
> > 
> >       If the value is larger than 0, the camera forces a reset of all
> >       D-PHY lanes for the duration specified by this property. All lanes
> >       will transition to the low-power state and back to the high-speed
> >       state after the delay. Otherwise the lanes will transition to and
> >       remain in the high-speed state immediately after power on.
> > 
> >       This is meant to help CSI-2 receivers synchronizing their D-PHY
> >       RX.
> 
> Question about the property.
> Why not make it have a minimum value of 1 and drop the special-case
> behaviour for zero?

The property is optional, so it can indeed be omitted if no delay is
desired. I have no strong preference on whether or not to allow 0 as a
valid value.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart