[PATCH v4 12/13] [HACK] drm/bridge: lvds-codec: Enforce device specific compatible strings

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Nov 19 00:16:16 UTC 2019


Hi Fabrizio,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 03:51:31PM +0000, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
> The lvds-codec driver is a generic stub for transparent LVDS
> encoders and decoders.
> It's good practice to list a device specific compatible string

s/good practice/mandatory/

> before the generic fallback (if any) in the DT node for the relevant
> LVDS encoder/decoder, and it's also required by the dt-bindings.
> A notable exception to the generic fallback mechanism is the case
> of "thine,thc63lvdm83d", as documented in:
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/thine,thc63lvdm83d.txt
> This patch enforces the adoption of a device specific compatible
> string (as fist string in the list), by using markers for the

s/fist/first/

> compatible string we match against and the index of the matching
> compatible string in the list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro at bp.renesas.com>
> 
> ---
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> I don't think we need to do anything in the driver to address your
> comment, as we can "enforce" this with the bindings (please see the
> next patch, as it would help with the "enforcing" of the compatible
> string for the thine device).
> I am sending this patch only so that you can see what a possible
> solution in the driver could look like.
> 
> v3->v4:
> * New patch addressing the below comment from Laurent:
> "I think the lvds-decoder driver should error out at probe time if only
> one compatible string is listed."
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lvds-codec.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lvds-codec.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lvds-codec.c
> index 784bbd3..145c25d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lvds-codec.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lvds-codec.c
> @@ -14,11 +14,16 @@
>  #include <drm/drm_bridge.h>
>  #include <drm/drm_panel.h>
>  
> +struct lvds_codec_data {
> +	u32 connector_type;
> +	bool device_specific;
> +};
> +
>  struct lvds_codec {
>  	struct drm_bridge bridge;
>  	struct drm_bridge *panel_bridge;
>  	struct gpio_desc *powerdown_gpio;
> -	u32 connector_type;
> +	const struct lvds_codec_data *data;
>  };
>  
>  static int lvds_codec_attach(struct drm_bridge *bridge)
> @@ -65,7 +70,30 @@ static int lvds_codec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	if (!lvds_codec)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	lvds_codec->connector_type = (u32)of_device_get_match_data(&pdev->dev);
> +	lvds_codec->data = of_device_get_match_data(&pdev->dev);
> +	if (!lvds_codec->data)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If we haven't matched a device specific compatible string, we need
> +	 * to work out if the generic compatible string we matched against was
> +	 * listed first in the compatible property.
> +	 */

Can't we do this unconditionally, and thus drop the lvds_codec_data
structure ?

> +	if (!lvds_codec->data->device_specific) {
> +		const struct of_device_id *match;
> +		int compatible_index;
> +
> +		match = of_match_node(dev->driver->of_match_table,
> +				      dev->of_node);
> +		compatible_index = of_property_match_string(dev->of_node,
> +							    "compatible",
> +							    match->compatible);
> +		if (compatible_index == 0) {
> +			dev_err(dev, "Device specific compatible needed\n");
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
>  	lvds_codec->powerdown_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "powerdown",
>  							     GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
>  	if (IS_ERR(lvds_codec->powerdown_gpio)) {
> @@ -92,7 +120,7 @@ static int lvds_codec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	lvds_codec->panel_bridge =
>  		devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed(dev, panel,
> -						lvds_codec->connector_type);
> +					lvds_codec->data->connector_type);
>  	if (IS_ERR(lvds_codec->panel_bridge))
>  		return PTR_ERR(lvds_codec->panel_bridge);
>  
> @@ -119,18 +147,33 @@ static int lvds_codec_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static const struct lvds_codec_data lvds_codec_decoder_data = {
> +	.connector_type = DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DPI,
> +	.device_specific = false,
> +};
> +
> +static const struct lvds_codec_data lvds_codec_encoder_data = {
> +	.connector_type = DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS,
> +	.device_specific = false,
> +};
> +
> +static const struct lvds_codec_data lvds_codec_thc63lvdm83d_data = {
> +	.connector_type = DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS,
> +	.device_specific = true,
> +};
> +
>  static const struct of_device_id lvds_codec_match[] = {
>  	{
>  		.compatible = "lvds-decoder",
> -		.data = (void *)DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DPI,
> +		.data = &lvds_codec_decoder_data,
>  	},
>  	{
>  		.compatible = "lvds-encoder",
> -		.data = (void *)DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS,
> +		.data = &lvds_codec_encoder_data,
>  	},
>  	{
>  		.compatible = "thine,thc63lvdm83d",
> -		.data = (void *)DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS,
> +		.data = &lvds_codec_thc63lvdm83d_data,
>  	},
>  	{},
>  };

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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