[PATCH 1/7] drm/omap: ensure all displays have been probed

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Tomi,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wednesday 09 December 2015 17:38:05 Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> DRM offers no ways to add new displays after the DRM driver has been
> loaded. This causes issues on boards that have multiple displays, and
> omapdrm is loaded when some of them are loaded but not all. The result
> is that omapdrm starts with the displays that were loaded at that time,
> ignoring the displays loaded later.
> 
> This patch changes the behavior so that omapdrm ensures all display are
> loaded which have an alias in the .dts file.
> 
> The downside is that this prevents omapdrm from loading if, say, the
> user has not compiled a kernel module for one of the displays, or
> there's some kind of failure in one of the displays. Thus, after this
> patch, all the displays have to work, or none does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c index 5c6609cbb6a2..c93c13e2c22d
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c
> @@ -242,11 +242,38 @@ static void omap_disconnect_dssdevs(void)
>  		dssdev->driver->disconnect(dssdev);
>  }
> 
> +static bool dssdev_with_alias_exists(const char *alias)
> +{
> +	struct omap_dss_device *dssdev = NULL;
> +
> +	for_each_dss_dev(dssdev) {
> +		if (strcmp(alias, dssdev->alias) == 0) {
> +			omap_dss_put_device(dssdev);
> +			return true;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	return false;
> +}
> +
>  static int omap_connect_dssdevs(void)
>  {
>  	int r;
>  	struct omap_dss_device *dssdev = NULL;
>  	bool no_displays = true;
> +	struct device_node *aliases;
> +	struct property *pp;
> +
> +	aliases = of_find_node_by_path("/aliases");
> +	if (aliases) {
> +		for_each_property_of_node(aliases, pp) {
> +			if (strncmp(pp->name, "display", 7) != 0)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			if (dssdev_with_alias_exists(pp->name) == false)
> +				return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +		}
> +	}

The DSS bindings document the aliases as optional, so this won't work in the 
general case. The best solution would be to travel the display graph through 
the ports and use the components framework, but that would be more complex to 
implement.

> 
>  	for_each_dss_dev(dssdev) {
>  		r = dssdev->driver->connect(dssdev);

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart