Re: [PATCH] OMAPDSS: restore "name" sysfs entry.

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 24/02/15 22:31, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:40:32 +0200 Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 24/02/15 11:37, NeilBrown wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> commit 303e4697e762dc92a40405f4e4b8aac02cd0d70b
>>>     OMAPDSS: rename display-sysfs 'name' entry
>>>
>>> broke the xorg X server on my device as it couldn't find the display
>>> any more.  It needs the 'name' file and now there isn't one.
>>>
>>> That commit claims that 'name' is not compatible with i2c or spi.
>>> i2c does register it own 'name' file, but spi does not, hence my
>>> problem - I have an spi display.
>>>
>>> So create a special case for i2c: add the name attribute for non-i2c
>>> devices.
>>
>> What X driver is that? What's it doing with the display name? Is it just
>> using the display name to show something for the user, and the returned
>> value can be essentially any string?
>>
>>  Tomi
>>
>>
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/omapfb_drv.so
> from package xserver-xorg-video-omap3 in Debian.
> 
> I don't know where the main upstream source is, but here:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/gnutoo-s-programs-for-shr/xf86-video-omapfb/source/28c006c94e57ea71df11ec4fff79d7ffcfc4860f:src/omapfb-output-dss.c#L258
> 
> is the code which reads
>    /sys/devices/platform/omapdss/display0/name
> and fails if that file cannot be opened.

Thanks. Unfortunately it looks to me that the omapfb_drv uses the
display name to configure things, and as in i2c's case the 'name' is not
the correct dss name, X will probably fail in interesting ways.

Of course, it's already broken in that way, so this fix improves the
situation for non-i2c displays. I'll have a look if I can figure out how
to fix this for all displays.

 Tomi

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