[PATCH v15 06/16] phy: rockchip: usbdp: Drop seamless DP takeover

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 03:49:53PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Right now the DRM drivers do not support seamless DP takeover and I'm
> I'm not aware of any bootloader implementing this feature either.
> 
> In any case this feature would be limited to boards using the USBDP PHY
> for a DP or eDP connection instead of the more commonly USB-C connector.
> With USB-C's DP AltMode a seamless DP takeover requires handing over the
> state of the TCPM state machine from the bootloader to the kernel. This
> in turn requires a huge amount of work to keep the state machine
> implementations synchronized. It's very unlikely we will see somebody
> implementing that in the foreseeable future.
> 
> As the current code is obviously buggy and untested, let's simply drop
> support for seamless DP takeover. It can be re-implemented cleanly once
> somebody adds all missing bits.
> 
> Fixes: 2f70bbddeb45 ("phy: rockchip: add usbdp combo phy driver")
> Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot at kernel.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-phy/20260612164107.C7DB21F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/
> Tested-by: Igor Paunovic <royalnet026 at gmail.com> # Orange Pi 5 Plus
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel at collabora.com>

Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at oss.qualcomm.com>

- Mani

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