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

[Ajay kumar]

Hi Javier,

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier at dowhile0.org> wrote:
> 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"
Yes, I will. I was caught up with some other work.
I will be sending a version ASAP.

Ajay