[RFC PATCH 0/3] drm/panel: Pull some code out into common helpers

[Sean Paul]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org> wrote:
> This series pulls out the power-sequencing code from panel-simple into a
> panel-common helper library. This allows drivers that cannot leverage
> panel-simple to share some code.
>
> I've converted the 2 sharp mipi drivers, and Chris Zhong's driver on the
> list can also be converted. I haven't checked any other drivers, but I
> suspect we'll see the same code blocks there too.
>
> I'm sure there's more we can pull out of the various drivers, but this
> seems like a good place to start talking about how to share common panel
> code across drivers.
>

Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>

Adding Noralf to see if this might be useful for tinydrm.

Sean


> Sean
>
> Sean Paul (3):
>   drm/panel: Pull common panel code out into helpers
>   drm/panel: sharp-lq101r1sx01: Use panel-common helpers
>   drm/panel: panel-sharp-ls043t1le01: Use panel-common helpers
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Kconfig                   |  22 +++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/Makefile                  |   1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-common.c            | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-common.h            |  44 +++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sharp-lq101r1sx01.c |  79 ++++---------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sharp-ls043t1le01.c |  70 +++--------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c            | 112 +++---------------
>  7 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-common.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-common.h
>
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