[RFC PATCH] drm/panel: simple: panel-dpi: use bus-format to set bpc and bus_format

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Fri Apr 8 11:01:23 PDT 2022


On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:15:33AM +0100, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:06:18PM +0100, Max Krummenacher wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2022, 16:58 +0100 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
> > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:42:11AM +0100, Max Krummenacher wrote:
> > > > I would copy the definitions of media-bus-format.h into a header in
> > > > include/dt-bindings similarly as it is done for
> > > > include/dt-bindings/display/sdtv-standards.h for TV standards.
> > > 
> > > That might not be an option: that header is licensed under the GPL,
> > > device trees are usually licensed under GPL+MIT, and we don't have any
> > > requirements on the license for other projects using a DT (hence the
> > > dual license).
> > 
> > That one I didn't consider. That would be solved by a newly invented
> > enum.
> 
> IANAL, but we are talking about the copyright of something that is not
> even a complete API, it is just a list of name/value. I do not believe
> that this is a real problem without solution.

I agree here, I don't think it's an issue.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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