[PATCH v8 2/3] drm/panel: Add support for S6E3HA2 panel driver on TM2 board

[Sean Paul]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 04:02:26PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:38:53AM -0500, Sean Paul wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:54:49AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:01:07AM +0900, Inki Dae wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 2017년 01월 24일 10:50에 Hoegeun Kwon 이(가) 쓴 글:
> > > > > Dear Thierry,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Could you please review this patch?
> > > > 
> > > > Thierry, I think this patch has been reviewed enough but no comment
> > > > from you. Seems you are busy. I will pick up this.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, but that's not how it works. This patch has gone through 8
> > > revisions within 4 weeks, and I tend to ignore patches like that until
> > > the dust settles.
> > > 
> > 
> > Seems like the dust was pretty settled. It was posted on 1/11, pinged on 1/24,
> > and picked up on 1/31. I don't think it's unreasonable to take it through
> > another tree after that.
> > 
> > I wonder if drm_panel would benefit from the -misc group maintainership model
> > as drm_bridge does. By spreading out the workload, the high-maintenance
> > patches would hopefully find someone to shepherd them through.
> 
> Except that nobody except me really cares. 

I certainly haven't been paying attention. My excuse, at least, is that you're a
great maintainer and I haven't thought the patches need a second look. Perhaps
if we moved towards a group, more people would be vested/care?

> If we let people take patches
> through separate trees or group-maintained trees they'll likely go in
> without too much thought. DRM panel is somewhat different from core DRM
> in this regard because its infrastructure is minimal and there's little
> outside the panel-simple driver. So we're still at a stage where we need
> to fine-tune what drivers should look like and how we can improve.
> 

Fair point. With drm_bridge, I've been lending review help, but deferring to
Archit for merge on patches which I think he should look at. Gustavo is in a
similar place with fences. drm_panel seems like something that should follow
the same model. Maybe once more people (or one person) get up to speed on
things, we could share the load.

> > > Other than that, this continues the same madness that I've repeatedly
> > > complained about in the past. The whole mechanism of running through a
> > > series of writes and not caring about errors until the very end is
> > > something we've discussed at length in the past. It also in large parts
> > > duplicates a bunch of functions from other Samsung panel drivers that I
> > > already said should eventually be moved to something saner.
> > > 
> > 
> > FWIW, this type of error handling isn't my preference either. If we must defer,
> > I'd rather not keep it in ctx, but rather pass around an argument so it's more
> > obvious we need to deal with it in the return. That said, this seems like
> > a case of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, surely something is
> > better than nothing?
> 
> That's what I ended up saying the last two times. But this has got to
> stop at some point. If you look at most of the panel drivers, they look
> more like material for the staging tree rather than DRM proper.
> 
> Yes, something is better than nothing, but we can't have this multiply
> further.
>

So perhaps if we had more reviewers, we could tighten up the review feedback
loop and avoid this while still getting things merged?

I'm mostly thinking out load here, so take it for what it's worth.

Sean



> Last time we discussed this there was some rough concensus that the
> initialization sequence would be split into separate functions, which is
> already mostly true for these drivers, and then settle on a common
> signature for these functions, which is also mostly the case already,
> and then have a table of functions that can be called one after another
> with error handling on each call. That way at least you can provide
> diagnostics about what function failed, and you can abort early because
> we have to assume that failures are fatal.
> 
> Thierry



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