[PATCH 1/3] drm/bridge: Add a function to abstract away panels

[Patrik Jakobsson]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:23 AM Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> wrote:
>
> Hi Patrik,
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 02:47:49PM +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 3:10 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> wrote:
> > >
> > > Display drivers so far need to have a lot of boilerplate to first
> > > retrieve either the panel or bridge that they are connected to using
> > > drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge(), and then either deal with each with ad-hoc
> > > functions or create a drm panel bridge through drm_panel_bridge_add.
> > >
> > > In order to reduce the boilerplate and hopefully create a path of least
> > > resistance towards using the DRM panel bridge layer, let's create the
> > > function devm_drm_of_get_next to reduce that boilerplate.
> >
> > Hi Maxime,
> >
> > This patch creates a dependency error for me:
> >
> > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: drm_kms_helper -> drm -> drm_kms_helper
> > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: cec
> > depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles!
>
> I just pushed a fix to drm-misc-fixes that should address it

Great, thanks!

>
> Maxime