[PATCH v5 0/5] drm/bridge: Update tc358767 and nxp-ptn3460 to support chained bridges

[Sam Ravnborg]

Hi all.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:03:15PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> This patch-set aims to make connector creation optional
> and prepare the bridge drivers for use in a chained setup.
> 
> The objective is that all bridge drivers shall support a chained setup
> connector creation is moved to the display drivers.
> This is just one step on this path.
> 
> The general approach for the bridge drivers:
> - Introduce bridge operations
> - Introduce use of panel bridge and make connector creation optional
> 
> v5:
>   - Applied reviewed patches, so we went from 15 to 5
>   - Fixed bug in connector creation in both drivers
> 
> v4:
>   - Dropped patch for ti-sn65dsi86. Await full conversion
>   - Dropped patch for ti-tpd12s015. It was wrong (Laurent)
>   - Drop boe,hv070wsa-100 patch, it was applied
>   - Combined a few patches to fix connector created twice (Laurent)
>   - Fix memory leak in get_edid (Laurent)
>   - Added patch to validate panel descriptions in panel-simple
>   - Set bridge.type in relevant drivers
>  
> v3:
>   - Rebase on top of drm-misc-next
>   - Address kbuild test robot feedback
>  
> v2:
>   - Updated bus_flags for boe,hv070wsa-100
>   - Collected r-b, but did not apply patches yet
>   - On the panel side the panel-simple driver gained a default
>     connector type for all the dumb panels that do not
>     include so in their description.
>     With this change panels always provide a connector type,
>     and we have the potential to drop most uses of
>     devm_drm_panel_bridge_add_typed().
>   - Added conversion of a few more bridge drivers
> 
> Patches can build but no run-time testing.
> So both test and review feedback appreciated!
> 
> 	Sam
> 
> 
> Sam Ravnborg (5):
>       drm/bridge: tc358767: add detect bridge operation
>       drm/bridge: tc358767: add get_edid bridge operation
>       drm/bridge: tc358767: add drm_panel_bridge support
>       drm/bridge: nxp-ptn3460: add get_edid bridge operation
>       drm/bridge: nxp-ptn3460: add drm_panel_bridge support

Fixed up per Laurent's suggestion and applied to drm-misc-next.

	Sam


> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/nxp-ptn3460.c | 103 +++++++++++++---------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/tc358767.c    | 126 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  2 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
>