[PATCH v1 14/16] drm/panel: call prepare/enable only once

[Emil Velikov]

On 2019/08/05, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 10:16:35PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Many panel drivers duplicate logic to prevent prepare to be called
> > for a panel that is already prepared.
> > Likewise for enable.
> > 
> > Implement this logic in drm_panel so the individual drivers
> > no longer needs this.
> > A panel is considered prepared/enabled only if the prepare/enable call
> > succeeds.
> > For disable/unprepare it is unconditionally considered
> > disabled/unprepared.
> > 
> > This allows calls to prepare/enable again, even if there were
> > some issue disabling a regulator or similar during disable/unprepare.
> 
> Is this the right place to handle this ? Shouldn't the upper layers
> ensure than enable/disable and prepare/unprepare are correcty balanced,
> and not called multiple times ? Adding enabled and prepared state to
> drm_panel not only doesn't align well with atomic state handling, but
> also would hide issues in upper layers that should really be fixed
> there.
> 
Fully agreed. Mistakes happen - hiding them, by returning "success" does
not sound like a wise approach.

HTH
Emil