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Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:22:15 +0000
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Cc:     Svyatoslav Ryhel <clamor95@...il.com>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@...inx.com>,
        Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@...inx.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] dt-bindings: iio: light: add apds990x binding

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 11:47:19 +0100
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org> wrote:

> On 11/03/2023 20:34, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 
> >> +
> >> +additionalProperties: false
> >> +
> >> +required:
> >> +  - compatible
> >> +  - reg
> >> +  - interrupt  
> > It would nice to relax the need for an interrupt if the device is still useable
> > with timeouts etc.  Board folk have a habit of deciding they don't need to wire
> > up interrupts.  We can relax that a later date though if you prefer not to do
> > it now.  
> >> +  - vdd-supply
> >> +  - vled-supply  
> > 
> > Whilst true that the supplies need to be connected, that doesn't
> > mean they need to provided in the device tree binding.  If they are
> > always powered up I think we can fallback to stub regulators.  
> 
> We can, but others might not. The binding should still require them if
> they are required for device to work. Mark also made it clear recently:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/31ca0ede-012c-4849-bf25-d0492b116681@sirena.org.uk/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/5cd6764c-9b04-42ea-932d-9f14aa465605@sirena.org.uk/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/f6f02138-8ef9-4a33-9b51-0b7cd371230f@sirena.org.uk/


OK. Then there are a lot of bindings to fix. Seems odd to me but meh it's
not something I care about.

Note this means that we can't have trivial-device.yaml for instance.

Ah well, I guess views change or crystallise over time or just differed
in the first place.

Jonathan

> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 

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