[PATCH v4 08/11] drm/bridge: Add a drm_bridge_state object

[Boris Brezillon]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 20:17:05 +0200
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 03:15:12PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > One of the last remaining objects to not have its atomic state.
> > 
> > This is being motivated by our attempt to support runtime bus-format
> > negotiation between elements of the bridge chain.
> > This patch just paves the road for such a feature by adding a new
> > drm_bridge_state object inheriting from drm_private_obj so we can
> > re-use some of the existing state initialization/tracking logic.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
> > ---
> > Changes in v4:
> > * Fix the doc
> > * Kill default helpers (inlined)  
> 
> I liked the default helpers, inlining their content makes the code more
> difficult to follow in my opinion.

I'll go back to this approach then. Should I keep the original helper
names even though they're not globally visible (and should probably
never be)?