[PATCH v5 4/7] drm: sun4i: dsi: Add mode_set function

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 08:01:47PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 7:39 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 07:21:57PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > > It's perfectly valid to dereference the pointer in atomic_enable, and
> > > > that patch would consume memory for no particular reason.
> > >
> > > Again, I'm not pointing any mistake in dereference and certainly not
> > > understand about what memory consumption issue here.
> >
> > You add a struct drm_display_mode field to struct sun6i_dsi. It
> > increases the size of struct sun6i_dsi of sizeof(struct
> > drm_display_mode).
> >
> > > I'm doing it here since I'm doing it via mode_set in other drivers. No
> > > problem for me either way.
> >
> > But *why* are you doing so?
> >
> > There might be a valid reason in other drivers, but there's none here
> > (that you mentioned at least).
> 
> The reason is to use existing bridge function instead of dereference
> ie what I've mentioned. I don't have any other reasons.

This discussion is going in circles. Unless you have a reason other than
"because we can", NAK for the reasons already stated above.

Maxime