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

Francesco Dolcini francesco.dolcini at toradex.com
Thu Mar 24 01:15:33 PDT 2022


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.

Francesco



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