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

[Marek Vasut]

On 10/17/22 09:43, Jagan Teki wrote:
> 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)"

I disagree with the "Add" part of the Subject, but I'll wait for others' 
opinion here.