[PATCH 2/4] drm/i2c: tda998x: Remove obsolete drm_connector_register() call

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Wed Oct 19 08:52:15 UTC 2016


Hi Russell,

On Wednesday 19 Oct 2016 09:16:30 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:54:06AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 Oct 2016 00:33:54 Jyri Sarha wrote:
> >> Remove obsolete drm_connector_register() call from tda998x_bind(). All
> >> connectors are registered when drm_dev_register() is called by the
> >> master drm_device driver.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jyri Sarha <jsarha at ti.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> > 
> > By the way, any chance you would plan porting the driver to drm_bridge ?
> > :-)
>
> What's the point?

Avoiding code duplication. We currently have three APIs to handle external 
encoders (drm encoder slave, drm bridge and the component-based method used by 
tda998x only), which requires display drivers that want to support multiple 
external encoders to use up to three APIs.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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