Re: [PATCH 8/8] drm/bridge: it66121: Allow link this driver as a lib

From: Sui Jingfeng
Date: Thu Nov 16 2023 - 12:19:12 EST



On 2023/11/16 23:23, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 14:08, Sui Jingfeng <sui.jingfeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2023/11/16 19:53, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
Hi,


On 2023/11/16 19:29, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 13:18, Sui Jingfeng <sui.jingfeng@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi,


On 2023/11/15 00:30, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
+
+ ctx->connector = connector;
+ }

if (ctx->info->id == ID_IT66121) {
ret = regmap_write_bits(ctx->regmap,
IT66121_CLK_BANK_REG,
@@ -1632,16 +1651,13 @@ static const char * const
it66121_supplies[] = {
"vcn33", "vcn18", "vrf12"
};

-static int it66121_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
+int it66121_create_bridge(struct i2c_client *client, bool
of_support,
+ bool hpd_support, bool audio_support,
+ struct drm_bridge **bridge)
{
+ struct device *dev = &client->dev;
int ret;
struct it66121_ctx *ctx;
- struct device *dev = &client->dev;
-
- if (!i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter,
I2C_FUNC_I2C)) {
- dev_err(dev, "I2C check functionality failed.\n");
- return -ENXIO;
- }

ctx = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ctx)
@@ -1649,24 +1665,19 @@ static int it66121_probe(struct i2c_client
*client)

ctx->dev = dev;
ctx->client = client;
- ctx->info = i2c_get_match_data(client);
-
- ret = it66121_of_read_bus_width(dev, &ctx->bus_width);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- ret = it66121_of_get_next_bridge(dev, &ctx->next_bridge);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- i2c_set_clientdata(client, ctx);
mutex_init(&ctx->lock);

- ret = devm_regulator_bulk_get_enable(dev,
ARRAY_SIZE(it66121_supplies),
- it66121_supplies);
- if (ret) {
- dev_err(dev, "Failed to enable power supplies\n");
- return ret;
+ if (of_support) {
+ ret = it66121_of_read_bus_width(dev,
&ctx->bus_width);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = it66121_of_get_next_bridge(dev,
&ctx->next_bridge);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ } else {
+ ctx->bus_width = 24;
+ ctx->next_bridge = NULL;
}
A better alternative would be to turn OF calls into fwnode calls and
to populate the fwnode properties. See
drivers/platform/x86/intel/chtwc_int33fe.c for example.
Honestly, I don't want to leave any scratch(breadcrumbs).
I'm worries about that turn OF calls into fwnode calls will leave
something unwanted.

Because I am not sure if fwnode calls will make sense in the DT
world, while my patch
*still* be useful in the DT world.
fwnode calls work for both DT and non-DT cases. In the DT case they
work with DT nodes and properties. In the non-DT case, they work with
manually populated properties.

Because the newly introduced it66121_create_bridge()
function is a core. I think It's better leave this task to a more
advance programmer.
if there have use case. It can be introduced at a latter time,
probably parallel with
the DT.

I think DT and/or ACPI is best for integrated devices, but it66121
display bridges is
a i2c slave device. Personally, I think slave device shouldn't be
standalone. I'm more
prefer to turn this driver to support hot-plug, even remove the
device on the run time
freely when detach and allow reattach. Like the I2C EEPROM device in
the monitor (which
contains the EDID, with I2C slave address 0x50). The I2C EEPROM
device *also* don't has
a corresponding struct device representation in linux kernel.
It has. See i2c_client::dev.
No, what I mean is that there don't have a device driver for
monitor(display) hardware entity.
And the drm_do_probe_ddc_edid() is the static linked driver, which is
similar with the idea
this series want to express.
Because the monitor is not a part of the display pipeline.

I think the monitor *is definitely* part of the display pipeline, and it
is the most important part of the entire display pipeline.

1)

DPMS, self-refreshing, display timings, resolutions supported, HDR, DSC,
gsync and freesync etc can be part of whole mode-set. Please consider
what the various ->mode_valid() and -> the atomic_check() are for?

2)

If the monitor is not a part of the display pipeline, then the various
display panels hardware should also not be part of the display pipeline.
Because they are all belong to display category.
the monitor = panel + panel drive IC(such as RTD2281CL, HT1622, ssd130x).

There are panel bridges which abstract the panel + connector as a drm bridge,
why the bare panel can be part of the display pipeline, while the more complex
monitor can't be?