[PATCH v6 11/18] drm/display: bridge_connector: Ensure last bridge determines EDID/modes detection capabilities

Damon Ding damon.ding at rock-chips.com
Wed Oct 8 20:15:13 PDT 2025


Hi Dmitry,

On 10/1/2025 4:21 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 05:09:13PM +0800, Damon Ding wrote:
>> When multiple bridges are present, EDID detection capability
>> (DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID) takes precedence over modes detection
>> (DRM_BRIDGE_OP_MODES). To ensure the above two capabilities are
>> determined by the last bridge in the chain, we handle three cases:
>>
>> Case 1: The later bridge declares only DRM_BRIDGE_OP_MODES
>>   - If the previous bridge declares DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID, set
>>     &drm_bridge_connector.bridge_edid to NULL and set
>>     &drm_bridge_connector.bridge_modes to the later bridge.
>>   - Ensure modes detection capability of the later bridge will not
>>     be ignored.
>>
>> Case 2: The later bridge declares only DRM_BRIDGE_OP_EDID
>>   - If the previous bridge declares DRM_BRIDGE_OP_MODES, set
>>     &drm_bridge_connector.bridge_modes to NULL and set
>>     &drm_bridge_connector.bridge_edid to the later bridge.
>>   - Although EDID detection capability has higher priority, this
>>     operation is for balance and makes sense.
>>
>> Case 3: the later bridge declares both of them
>>   - Assign later bridge as &drm_bridge_connector.bridge_edid and
>>     and &drm_bridge_connector.bridge_modes to this bridge.
>>   - Just leave transfer of these two capabilities as before.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Damon Ding <damon.ding at rock-chips.com>
>> Suggested-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at oss.qualcomm.com>
>> ---
>>   .../gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c    | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at oss.qualcomm.com>
> 
> But I'd suggest pulling this to a top of the series to let others also
> take a look at it.
> 

Will do in v7.

Best regards,
Damon




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