Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756621Ab3EYOMP (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 May 2013 10:12:15 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f50.google.com ([209.85.214.50]:60248 "EHLO mail-bk0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756598Ab3EYOL6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 May 2013 10:11:58 -0400 Message-ID: <51A0C6A8.5090302@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 16:11:52 +0200 From: Sylwester Nawrocki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120412 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prabhakar Lad CC: LMML , LKML , DLOS , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Laurent Pinchart , Guennadi Liakhovetski , Sakari Ailus , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Rob Landley , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Kyungmin Park Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] media: OF: add sync-on-green endpoint property References: <1368710287-8741-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> <519F4AE7.8000003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2904 Lines: 86 Hi, On 05/25/2013 11:17 AM, Prabhakar Lad wrote: >> From looking at Figure 8 "TVP7002 Application Example" in the TVP7002's >> > datasheet >> > ([2], p. 52) and your initial TVP7002 patches it looks like what you want is >> > to >> > specify polarity of the SOGOUT signal, so the processor that receives this >> > signal >> > can properly interpret it, is it correct ? >> > > Yes >> > If so then wouldn't it be more appropriate to define e.g. 'sog-active' >> > property >> > and media bus flags: >> > V4L2_MBUS_SYNC_ON_GREEN_ACTIVE_LOW >> > V4L2_MBUS_SYNC_ON_GREEN_ACTIVE_HIGH >> > ? >> > > Agreed I'll add these flags. > >> > And for synchronisation method on the analog part we could perhaps define >> > 'component-sync' or similar property that would enumerate all possible >> > synchronisation methods. We might as well use separate boolean properties, >> > but I'm a bit concerned about the increasing number of properties that need >> > to be parsed for each parallel video bus "endpoint". >> > > I am not clear on it can please elaborate more on this. I thought about two possible options: 1. single property 'component-sync' or 'video-sync' that would have values: #define VIDEO_SEPARATE_SYNC 0x01 #define VIDEO_COMPOSITE_SYNC 0x02 #define VIDEO_SYNC_ON_COMPOSITE 0x04 #define VIDEO_SYNC_ON_GREEN 0x08 #define VIDEO_SYNC_ON_LUMINANCE 0x10 And we could put these definitions into a separate header, e.g. Then in a device tree source file one could have, e.g. video-sync = ; 2. Separate boolean property for each video sync type, e.g. "video-composite-sync" "video-sync-on-composite" "video-sync-on-green" "video-sync-on-luminance" Separate sync, with separate VSYNC, HSYNC lines, would be the default, when none of the above is specified and 'vsync-active', 'hsync-active' properties are present. However, I suppose the better would be to deduce the video synchronisation method from the sync signal polarity flags. Then, for instance, when an endpoint node contains "composite-sync-active" property the parser would determine the "composite sync" synchronisation type is used. Thus it might make sense to have only following integer properties (added as needed): composite-sync-active sync-on-green-active sync-on-comp-active sync-on-luma-active This would allow to specify polarity of each signal and at the same time the parsing code could derive synchronisation type. A new field could be added to struct v4l2_of_parallel_bus, e.g. sync_type and it would be filled within v4l2_of_parse_endpoint(). What do you think ? Thanks, Sylwester -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/