[PATCH v7 01/10] drm: bridge: Add Samsung DSIM bridge driver

[Jagan Teki]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 12:49 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/22 04:49, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 3:16 AM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/5/22 17:13, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >>> Samsung MIPI DSIM controller is common DSI IP that can be used in various
> >>> SoCs like Exynos, i.MX8M Mini/Nano.
> >>>
> >>> In order to access this DSI controller between various platform SoCs,
> >>> the ideal way to incorporate this in the drm stack is via the drm bridge
> >>> driver.
> >>>
> >>> This patch is trying to differentiate platform-specific and bridge driver
> >>> code by maintaining exynos platform glue code in exynos_drm_dsi.c driver
> >>> and common bridge driver code in samsung-dsim.c providing that the new
> >>> platform-specific glue should be supported in the bridge driver, unlike
> >>> exynos platform drm drivers.
> >>>
> >>> - Add samsung_dsim_plat_data for keeping platform-specific attributes like
> >>>     host_ops, irq_ops, and hw_type.
> >>>
> >>> - Initialize the plat_data hooks for exynos platform in exynos_drm_dsi.c.
> >>>
> >>> - samsung_dsim_probe is the common probe call across exynos_drm_dsi.c and
> >>>     samsung-dsim.c.
> >>>
> >>> - plat_data hooks like host_ops and irq_ops are invoked during the
> >>>     respective bridge call chains.
> >>
> >> Maybe the Subject should say "Split ... driver" or "Move ... driver" ,
> >> since it is not adding a new driver here ?
> >
> > Though it is not added a completely new driver, it is adding more
> > infrastructure platform code to be compatible with both Exynos and
> > i.MX8M. This is the prime reason for adding that commit head and
> > explaining the same in the commit body.
>
> Diffstat looks like this:
>
>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.c   | 1703 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/Kconfig          |    1 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_dsi.c | 1766 ++---------------------
>   include/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.h       |  113 ++
>   7 files changed, 1952 insertions(+), 1653 deletions(-)
>
> Looks to me like most of the code is just moved from existing driver in
> this patch.

Yeah, as I explained (from commit) it is moved, updated, and written
the plat code. How about this head?

"drm: bridge: Add Samsung DSIM bridge (Split from exynos_drm_dsi)"

Jagan.