[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: Enable modules for arm displays

Carsten Haitzler carsten.haitzler at foss.arm.com
Wed May 11 06:15:09 PDT 2022



On 5/11/22 14:13, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 09:06:52PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> 
>> The quickest way is to harmonise the treatment of IRQs between tda998x and tda9950.
>> The former treats the IRQ as optional, the later as mandatory. Given that (according
>> to comments in the code) TDA998X is actually a TDA9989+TDA9950, it makes sense to
>> treat the lack of IRQ the same way (make it optional, IMHO).
> 
> The check in tda9950 is sensible enough, the device relies on interrupts
> to report the status of CEC operations so we'd need to poll constantly
> which doesn't seem great.  It wouldn't be *so* bad for things initiated
> by the device but given that CEC is a network and we might get messages
> from other devices in the system at any time we'd need to poll
> constantly even when otherwise idle which doesn't seem good.  I sent a
> patch to lower the level of the log message, hopefully that's OK for
> people.

Ah - well either way- job done. :) No need to spin up a patch then :)



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