[PATCH 2/4] drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: add cec notifier support

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:16:40PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> On 07/17/2017 02:23 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >On 17/07/17 14:05, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 01:39:48PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>>On 17/07/17 11:05, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>>>On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:56:47AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>>>>Hi Russell,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On 09/06/17 16:10, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>>>>>On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 03:56:39PM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> >>>>>>>Yes, but on the Amlogic Meson plarform, the DW-HDMI CEC controller is
> >>>>>>>not used, but a custom one, so this notifier is actually useful for
> >>>>>>>this platform and maybe others.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Is the CEC controller configured into dw-hdmi (is the config bit set?)
> >>>>>>I'm just wondering if we're going to end up with two CEC drivers trying
> >>>>>>to bind to the same notifier.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Should we really wait until I push the Amlogic AO CEC driver ? Having a
> >>>>>>>notifier in the DW-HDMI driver won't harm anybody since it *will be used*.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>It sounds like this adds additional information that has been missing
> >>>>>>from the review of my patches - and I suspect changes Hans' comments.
> >>>>>>So, I'll wait, it seems pointless to try and update the patches when
> >>>>>>it's not clear how to proceed due to other dependencies, especially
> >>>>>>when it means that their existing state is what's required (I'm pleased
> >>>>>>that I've held off modifying the patches so far.)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>If that means having to wait another kernel revision, then I guess that's
> >>>>>>what will have to happen.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Can you respin your patch series, keeping the notifier support? The CEC
> >>>>>kernel config handling has been cleaned up (just select CEC_CORE and
> >>>>>CEC_NOTIFIER) so you should be good to go.
> >>>>
> >>>>Not yet - the change to the way you're dealing with Kconfig in CEC is
> >>>>fundamentally broken, and needs fixing before we can merge dw-hdmi-cec
> >>>>support.
> >>>>
> >>>>As a result of these Kconfig changes, dw-hdmi-cec now fails if:
> >>>>
> >>>>1. You build the CEC part as a module
> >>>>2. You build the HDMI part into the kernel
> >>>>
> >>>>This results in CEC_NOTIFIER=y and CEC_CORE=m, which, when the HDMI part
> >>>>gets built, results in the stubs in the notifier code being used, rather
> >>>>than the real functions.  This in turn causes the CEC part to never
> >>>>receive a physical address, which is therefore non-functional.
> >>>>
> >>>>I did have a patch to fix this, but it was never committed, and I got
> >>>>busy with other stuff (so it ended up being git reset --hard away.)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>This is more a DRM_DW_HDMI issue than a CEC issue IMHO.
> >>>
> >>>This will fix this:
> >>>
> >>>config DRM_DW_HDMI
> >>>         tristate
> >>>         select DRM_KMS_HELPER
> >>>         select REGMAP_MMIO
> >>>         select CEC_CORE if CEC_NOTIFIER			<<<<<<
> >>>
> >>>config DRM_DW_HDMI_CEC
> >>>         tristate "Synopsis Designware CEC interface"
> >>>         depends on DRM_DW_HDMI
> >>>         select CEC_CORE
> >>>         select CEC_NOTIFIER
> >>>         help
> >>>           Support the CE interface which is part of the Synopsis
> >>>           Designware HDMI block.
> >>>
> >>>This makes sense: if DRM_DW_HDMI_CEC is disabled but another CEC module is
> >>>used instead (as is apparently the case for amlogic), then the
> >>>
> >>>	select CEC_CORE if CEC_NOTIFIER
> >>>
> >>>line ensures that CONFIG_CEC_CORE has the right m/y value.
> >>
> >>I disagree with this approach.
> >>
> >>If DRM_DW_HDMI=y and DRM_DW_HDMI_CEC=n, but some other driver is enabled
> >>that selects CEC_NOTIFIER, then we end up with CEC_CORE forced enabled
> >>through dw-hdmi, even though we haven't asked for the CEC part to be
> >>enabled.
> >
> >If CEC_NOTIFIER is enabled by a CEC driver, then CEC_CORE will also be
> >enabled (without CEC_CORE that driver wouldn't compile, obviously).
> >
> >So I don't see the problem. All the select...if does is make sure that
> >the CEC_CORE can be reached from the HDMI driver if someone enabled the
> >CEC notifier (and thus CEC_CORE).
> >
> >>You might as well have CEC_NOTIFIER itself select CEC_CORE, and be done
> >>with it, because that's basically what this boils down to.
> >
> >That makes no sense.
> >
> >If CEC_NOTIFIER is set, then both the CEC driver and the HDMI driver have to
> >select CEC_CORE to ensure the right dependency. If CEC_NOTIFIER is not set,
> >then only the CEC driver has to select CEC_CORE. In that case the CEC code
> >is typically either integrated into the HDMI driver or it is a standalone
> >device like the USB pulse8-cec driver.
> 
> Just to make sure you aren't waiting for me to do anything: as far as I can tell
> the Kconfig above will ensure the right dependencies. If you have an example
> where this fails, then let me know. I am not planning on making any changes.
> Frankly, I wouldn't know what to change since AFAICT it is all working with
> the above Kconfig.

No, I just haven't got around to it yet - I've been busy all last week
trying to work out what's been causing a USB host driver to fail for a 
client, and as such haven't had any chance to look at much else post
merge window yet.

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