[PATCH] drm/exynos: fimd: Get signal polarities from device tree

[Joonyoung Shim]

On 05/19/2013 08:32 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 01 of May 2013 22:00:25 Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>> This patch modifies the driver to perform two stage parsing of video
>>> timings from device tree, to get timing information as struct
>>> videomode, which contains more data than struct fb_videomode.
>>>
>>> Thanks to this change, information about polarity of control signals
>>> (VSYNC, HSYNC, VDEN, VCLK) can be retrieved, in addition to standard
>>> video timings.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com>
>> Since the drm mode struct also contains flags for sync polarity ... why
>> is there no direct of -> drm_mode function? Going through an fb
>> videomode in a kms drm driver looks _really_ backwards to me.
>>
>> Cc'in Dave for the fun of it ;-)
> Struct fb_videomode is what exynos_drm_fimd driver uses internally. Sure
> it should use drm_mode, but this is not really related to this patch,
> because the code added in this patch only fills in the pdata struct, which
> for compatibility reasons (the same structure is used for both fbdev and
> drm drivers) contains struct fb_videomode.
>
> OK, now after having a bit of fun, could we merge this patch to at least
> have usable support of parallel displays using this driver?

I think it's better to use struct display_timings instead of struct
fb_videomode in exynos_drm.

Thanks.