[PATCH V6 6/8] drm/bridge: Modify drm_bridge core to support driver model

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Ajay,

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:33:28PM +0530, Ajay kumar wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> > I think it should even be possible to do this in more separate steps.
>> > For example you could add the new bridge infrastructure without touching
>> > any of the existing drivers (so that they are completely unaffected by
>> > the changes) and then start converting one by one.
>> >
>> > For some of the changes this may be difficult (such as the dev ->
>> > drm_dev rename to make room for the new struct device *dev). But that
>> > could for example be done in a preparatory patch that first renames the
>> > field, so that the "infrastructure" patch can add the new field without
>> > renaming any fields and therefore needing changes to drivers directly.
>> >
>> > The goal of that whole exercise is to allow display drivers to keep
>> > working with the existing API (ptn3460_init()) while we convert the
>> > bridge drivers to register with the new framework. Then we can more
>> > safely convert each display driver individually to make use of the new
>> > framework and once all drivers have been converted the old API can
>> > simply be removed.
>> >
>> > That way there should be no impact on existing functionality at any
>> > point.
>> As of now only exynos_dp uses ptn3460_init.
>> And, also only 2 drivers use drm_bridge_init.
>> It should be really easy to bisect if something goes wrong.
>> Still, I will try to divide it so that each patch contains minimal change.
>
> Thanks.
>

Do you plan to address Thierry's concerns and re-spin this patch?

Same question for patches:

"drm/bridge: Add i2c based driver for ptn3460 bridge"
"drm/bridge: Add i2c based driver for ps8622/ps8625 bridge"

Thanks a lot and best regards,
Javier