Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] drm/panel-fannal-c3004: Add fannal c3004 DSI panel

[Marek Vasut]

On 7/6/23 17:18, Paulo Pavacic wrote:
> Hello Linus,
>
> čet, 22. lip 2023. u 10:22 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> napisao je:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 5:09 PM Paulo Pavacic <pavacic.p@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > A lot of modifications to st7701 are required. I believe it would
> > > result in a driver that doesn't look or work the same. e.g compare
> > > delays between initialization sequences of panel-fannal-c3004 and
> > > panel-st7701. I think it would be optimal to create st7701s driver and
> > > have special handling for st7701s panels. If there was a flag for
> > > whether panel is st7701 or st7701s it would end up looking like a
> > > mess.
> >
> > What matters is if the original authors of the old st7701 driver are
> > around and reviewing and testing patches at all. What we need is
> > active maintainers. (Added Jagan, Marek & Maya).
> >
> > I buy the reasoning that the st7701s is perhaps substantially different
> > from st7701.
> >
> > If st7701s is very different then I suppose it needs a separate driver,
> > then all we need to to name the driver properly, i.e.
> > panel-sitronix-st7701s.c.
>
> I had in person talk with Paul Kocialkowski and I have concluded that
> this is the best solution.
> I believe I should rename it to st7701s due to the hardware changes. I
> would like to create V5 patch with driver renamed to st7701s.
> Please let me know if you agree / disagree.

If I recall it right, the ST7701 and ST7701S are basically the same 
chip, aren't they ?