[PATCH v3 6/7] drm: sun4i: dsi: Use drm_panel_bridge, connector API

Maxime Ripard mripard at kernel.org
Fri Feb 26 16:57:23 UTC 2021


Hi,

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 01:11:01AM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> Use drm_panel_bridge to replace manual panel handling code.
>
> This simplifies the driver to allows all components in the
> display pipeline to be treated as bridges, paving the way
> to generic connector handling.
>
> Use drm_bridge_connector_init to create a connector for display
> pipelines that use drm_bridge.
>
> This allows splitting connector operations across multiple bridges
> when necessary, instead of having the last bridge in the chain
> creating the connector and handling all connector operations
> internally.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>

Most of the code removed in that patch was actually introduced earlier
which feels a bit weird. Is there a reason we can't do that one first,
and then introduce the bridge support?

Maxime


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