[PATCH v2 2/8] drm/bridge/synopsys: dsi: don't call __dw_mipi_dsi_probe from dw_mipi_dsi_bind

[Heiko Stübner]

Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2018, 14:16:28 CEST schrieb Andrzej Hajda:
> On 18.06.2018 12:28, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > __dw_mipi_dsi_probe() does all the grabbing of resources and does it using
> > devm-helpers. So this is happening on each try of master bringup possibly
> > slowing down things a lot.
> > 
> > Drivers using the component framework may instead want call
> > dw_mipi_dsi_probe separately in their probe function setup resources
> > early. That way the dsi bus also gets created earlier and also not
> > recreated on each bind-try, so that attached panels can load their
> > modules and be probed way before the bridge-attach in the bind call.
> > 
> > So drop the call to __dw_mipi_dsi_probe and modify the function to take
> > a struct dw_mipi_dsi instead of the platform-device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c | 15 +++------------
> >  include/drm/bridge/dw_mipi_dsi.h              |  5 +----
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c index
> > 07cde255cab2..bb4aeca5c0f9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
> > @@ -966,31 +966,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dw_mipi_dsi_remove);
> > 
> >  /*
> >  
> >   * Bind/unbind API, used from platforms based on the component framework.
> >   */
> > 
> > -struct dw_mipi_dsi *
> > -dw_mipi_dsi_bind(struct platform_device *pdev, struct drm_encoder
> > *encoder, -		 const struct dw_mipi_dsi_plat_data *plat_data)
> > +int dw_mipi_dsi_bind(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi, struct drm_encoder
> > *encoder)
> > 
> >  {
> > 
> > -	struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi;
> > 
> >  	int ret;
> > 
> > -	dsi = __dw_mipi_dsi_probe(pdev, plat_data);
> > -	if (IS_ERR(dsi))
> > -		return dsi;
> > -
> > 
> >  	ret = drm_bridge_attach(encoder, &dsi->bridge, NULL);
> >  	if (ret) {
> > 
> > -		dw_mipi_dsi_remove(dsi);
> > 
> >  		DRM_ERROR("Failed to initialize bridge with drm\n");
> > 
> > -		return ERR_PTR(ret);
> > +		return ret;
> > 
> >  	}
> > 
> > -	return dsi;
> > +	return ret;
> > 
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dw_mipi_dsi_bind);
> >  
> >  void dw_mipi_dsi_unbind(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi)
> >  {
> > 
> > -	__dw_mipi_dsi_remove(dsi);
> > 
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dw_mipi_dsi_unbind);
> 
> Can't we just remove these two bind/unbind functions and call
> drm_bridge_attach directly?

I guess my main motivation was to keep showing that the bridge-attach
(and any future bind actions) is the responsibility of the main driver,
but then again we can do it anyway you prefer.

So I see no problem to move this to the glue driver, if you prefer.


Heiko