[PATCH 1/5] drm/bridge: allow hpd_notify() to suppress connector hotplug events

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 10:48:03PM +0800, Yongxing Mou wrote:
> The bridge connector framework currently invokes all bridge
> hpd_notify() callbacks and unconditionally emits a connector hotplug
> event afterwards.
> 
> However, not every HPD notification requires a userspace hotplug event.
> 
> In particular, DP MST bridges may use hpd_notify() to propagate HPD and
> IRQ notifications through the bridge chain while the actual hotplug
> handling is performed by the DRM DP MST core. Connector creation,
> removal and userspace hotplug events are already managed by the MST
> topology framework.
> 
> Allow hpd_notify() implementations to suppress the bridge connector
> hotplug event by introducing a bool *send_hotplug parameter. Drivers
> can clear this flag when HPD processing should not result in a
> connector hotplug notification.

Why? Worst case the kernel receives another hotplug notification which
gets ignored by the driver.

> 
> A NULL pointer indicates that hotplug suppression is not supported by
> the caller, such as the connector detect polling path.

And nothing in this patch makes any use of it. I'd say, it's
questionable addition. Let me check other patches...

> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongxing Mou <yongxing.mou at oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lontium-lt9611uxc.c     |  3 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c | 15 +++++++++------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_hdmi.c     |  3 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_display.c            |  3 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_drm.h                |  3 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/dss/hdmi4.c            |  3 ++-
>  include/drm/drm_bridge.h                       |  3 ++-
>  7 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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With best wishes
Dmitry