[PATCH v3 0/8] drm/sun4i: dsi: Add burst mode support

Wed Feb 20 16:35:33 UTC 2019

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 04:01:09PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 1:56 PM Paul Kocialkowski
> <paul.kocialkowski at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 22:37 +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > On 15/02/19 8:10 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 15 Feb, 2019, 7:43 PM Maxime Ripard, <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com
> > > > <mailto:maxime.ripard at bootlin.com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 03:41:21PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > >      > Hi,
> > > >      >
> > > >      > Here is a series implementing the burst mode support for DSI.
> > > >      >
> > > >      > It's been tested on an A33 board with the panel supported on the last
> > > >      > patch, which should remove all quirks due to a different SoC from the
> > > >      > equation.
> > > >
> > > >     I should have sent that mail yesterday, but patches 1-4 and 6-7 were
> > > >     merged. Patch 5 was discarded since it was not consistent with the
> > > >     rest of the driver, and 8 had some comments.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Are the applied patches from this series or from my v7 series?
> > > >
> > > >   Would you please point me the branch.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Unfortunately my last mail didn't reach arm mailing list.
> > >
> > > Just wanted to know are the applied patches from this series or from my
> > > v7 series? Would you please point me the repo, I couldn't find it on
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux.git
> >
> > This series is the one that was applied upstream. You can find the
> > commits merged at: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc/log/
> 
> Thanks for sharing the link Paul.
> 
> This is really really discouraging.
> 
> Don't know whom to ask directly about this, but I am really upset
> about this move.

I appreciate and understand that, and I feel sorry it ended up like
this.

> Most of the changes from applied series have similar patches that are
> been part of my series of patches. I've been sending this since last
> September (which was sent way prior than this series).

Note that only the burst part has been merged, and the first time you
sent it was in November.

> How come the same series is recreated and applied with minor changes
> while the original series was still in discussion. At least Maxime
> should have informed me or he should have rejected my work from
> patchwork or atleast NAK in ML?

I did, both in private and public. And I've told you on numerous
occasions what was wrong with your series and the way you were pushing
things. But let's break it down:

v8:
  - Chen-Yu and I spent a lot of time (almost two full work days in my
    case, Chen-Yu at least a full evening from what I know) trying to
    make sense of the Allwinner BSP code, and report what was being
    done. This was made public on the mailing lists, and you were in
    cc [1][2]. It happened the week before your submission, yet you
    ignored most of those changes, and I told you so [3], mentionning
    a bunch of other recurring comments I had that were not really
    addressed.
  - This series and the other also had some obvious flaw that had 0
    chance to work properly (which you eventually noticed[4])

v7:
  - Chen-Yu and I were already discussing and pointing out some
    issues, that were not addressed[5]

v6:
  - Reviewing a PLL issue, already mentionned in the v5 and v2 [6]

v5:
  - I mention that the display I have is broken, just like in your v4 [6].
    Just like in the v4, I'm asking for a panel datasheet so
    that I can help you debug this further. This is ignored.
  - I asked for clarifications on that PLL min_rate, just like in the
    previous versions [7]

v4 
 - I mention that the only other DSI display there is is broken
   [8]. I'm again asking for datasheet and better commit logs.

v3
  - Some more ignored comments [9]

A64 DSI v2
  - Asking details on the PLL min_rate, comments ignored [10]
  - Untested code [11]

Burst v2
  - More details asked, obvious flaws [12]

v1
  - Me asking for better commit logs and some justifications [13][14][15]

TL; DR: there's not been any single iteration of those patches where
you wouldn't have ignored some comments made on a previous iteration,
despite for some patches numerous questions around the same points,
and with very significant time invested in this by numerous people
(Chen-Yu, myself and Paul to a lesser extent).

This is what was completely stalling your series, and I'm sure
frustrating both sides. You even acknowledged that in that mail:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-February/632060.html

Yet, you submitted your v8 versions without taking our comments into
account.

> All these burst changes and random fixes are reviewed in couple of
> versions, now the versioning moved to v8[1] [2]. For each and every
> versioning I'm trying to fix the previous version comments, code
> improvements, commit messages. In fact for each rotation I'm trying to
> validate 4 different panels which eventually consume all my 16 hours
> in day.
> 
> Please let me know to how could we better collaborate?

By listening and addressing the reviews we are making. If you feel
like you're missing something and / or not understanding everything in
a review (which honestly would be pretty understandable with that
sub-par DSI block documentation), then please ask, but ignoring those
comments will just be a waste of time for everyone involved, and will
frustrate everybody (especially when the time spent is this important).

Like I was saying before, I haven't merged any A64 or panel patches,
so this will be a pretty good occasion to test this.

Maxime

1: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-February/630522.html
2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-February/630772.html
3: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-February/632076.html
4: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/286191/
5: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/280045/
6: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/253495/
7: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/267373/
8: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/267362/
9: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/261779/
10: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/258921/
11: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10653309/
12: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10653355/
13: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/262554/
14: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/253495/
15: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/253503/
16: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/253491/

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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