[PATCH] drm/edid: move DDC_SEGMENT_ADDR into drm_edid.h

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Fri Jul 15 11:31:56 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:24:36AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 09:21:03PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:45:41PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 05:00:28PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > > The same definition of DDC_SEGMENT_ADDR is currently defined in two
> > > > places, drm_edid.c and inno_hdmi.h.  Let's consolidate the definition
> > > > into drm_edid.h in the same way that DDC_ADDR is defined.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> > > 
> > > What really should be done here is nuke the fake i2c adapter in
> > > inno_hdmi.c and instead just directly read the edid from the hdim IP.
> > > Using drm_get_edid for something that's not backed by a real i2c bus is
> > > bonghits.
> > 
> > This patch just makes some change literally.  I do not understand how
> > the IP block works at all.  I thought the HDMI IP talks to monitors
> > using I2C protocol implemented inside the IP block.  I added Rockchip
> > folks to see if we can get any clarifications from them.
> 
> btw drm_edid.c gained a special variant for this case a while ago:
> drm_do_get_edid(). With that you can retain all the robustness/retrying
> logic, while providing your own special function to read an entire edid
> block. I think that's the function which should be used here.

Thanks much for the info, Daniel.  It's now clear where I should go for
my WIP HDMI driver.

Shawn


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