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Message-ID: <1832736.hCOhBbmy4r@avalon>
Date:	Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:14 +0100
From:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:	Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>
Cc:	Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@...il.com>,
	LMML <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	DLOS <davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com>,
	"Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.lad@...com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] media: tvp514x: add OF support

Hi Prabhakar,

On Sunday 03 February 2013 15:43:49 Prabhakar Lad wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> > On 01/29/2013 02:07 PM, Prabhakar Lad wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/tvp514x.txt
> >> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/tvp514x.txt
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..55d3ffd
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/tvp514x.txt
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
> >> +* Texas Instruments TVP514x video decoder
> >> +
> >> +The TVP5146/TVP5146m2/TVP5147/TVP5147m1 device is high quality,
> >> +single-chip digital video decoder that digitizes and decodes all popular
> >> +baseband analog video formats into digital video component. The tvp514x
> >> +decoder supports analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion of component RGB and
> >> +YPbPr signals as well as A/D conversion and decoding of NTSC, PAL and
> >> +SECAM composite and S-video into component YCbCr.
> >> +
> >> +Required Properties :
> >> +- compatible: Must be "ti,tvp514x-decoder"
> > 
> > There are no significant differences among TVP514* devices as listed
> > above, you would like to handle above ?
> > 
> > I'm just wondering if you don't need, for instance, two separate
> > compatible properties, e.g. "ti,tvp5146-decoder" and "ti,tvp5147-decoder"
> > ?
> 
> There are few differences in init/power sequence tough, I would still
> like to have single compatible property "ti,tvp514x-decoder", If you feel we
> need separate property I will change it please let me know on this.

If there's any difference between the chips that need to be handled in the 
driver, using two compatible properties is a good practice. Your driver will 
then be able to easily differentiate between the two chips, and there's no 
real drawback in doing so.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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