[PATCH v3 6/7] drm: sun4i: dsi: Use drm_panel_bridge, connector API

[Jagan Teki]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 10:05 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:40:24PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:27 PM Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 01:11:01AM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > > Use drm_panel_bridge to replace manual panel handling code.
> > > >
> > > > This simplifies the driver to allows all components in the
> > > > display pipeline to be treated as bridges, paving the way
> > > > to generic connector handling.
> > > >
> > > > Use drm_bridge_connector_init to create a connector for display
> > > > pipelines that use drm_bridge.
> > > >
> > > > This allows splitting connector operations across multiple bridges
> > > > when necessary, instead of having the last bridge in the chain
> > > > creating the connector and handling all connector operations
> > > > internally.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
> > >
> > > Most of the code removed in that patch was actually introduced earlier
> > > which feels a bit weird. Is there a reason we can't do that one first,
> > > and then introduce the bridge support?
> >
> > This patch adds new bridge API's which requires the driver has to
> > support the bridge first.
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying, you can definitely have a bridge
> without support for a downstream bridge.

I understand your point. what I'm saying here is, This patch
introduces two new bridge API's

devm_drm_panel_bridge_add
drm_bridge_connector_init

In order to add these API's the driver has to support the bridge
first. All the patches before this one support bridge and this patch
introduce new APIs, ie the reason we have code removed in this patch
which has been added before.

Okay. I think I will send the next version series till bridge
conversion. Improvement patches like this can take care of later
versions and even it depends on Patch v3 5/7 which indeed require a
separate discussion. This way it makes less confusion.

Hope it's fine for you?

Jagan.