[PATCH v4 24/24] drm/exynos: dsi: Adjust probe order

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Fri Sep 17 12:35:05 UTC 2021


Hi,

On 13.09.2021 12:30, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> W dniu 10.09.2021 o 12:12, Maxime Ripard pisze:
>> Without proper care and an agreement between how DSI hosts and devices
>> drivers register their MIPI-DSI entities and potential components, we can
>> end up in a situation where the drivers can never probe.
>>
>> Most drivers were taking evasive maneuvers to try to workaround this,
>> but not all of them were following the same conventions, resulting in
>> various incompatibilities between DSI hosts and devices.
>>
>> Now that we have a sequence agreed upon and documented, let's convert
>> exynos to it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>
> This patch should be dropped, as it will probably break the driver.
>
> Exynos is already compatible with the pattern
> register-bus-then-get-sink, but it adds/removes panel/bridge
> dynamically, so it creates drm_device without waiting for downstream sink.

Right, this patch breaks Exynos DSI driver operation. Without it, the 
whole series works fine on all Exynos based test boards.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland



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