[PATCH] drm/msm/dsi: Set panel orientation when directly connected

[Rob Clark]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 8:25 AM Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 12:14 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Set the panel orientation in drm when the panel is directly connected,
> > i.e. we're not using an external bridge. The external bridge case is
> > already handled by the panel bridge code, so we only update the path we
> > take when the panel is directly connected/internal. This silences a
> > warning splat coming from __drm_mode_object_add() on Wormdingler boards.
> >
> > Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi at chromium.org>
> > Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> > This relies on commit 5e41b01a7808 ("drm/panel: Add an API to allow drm
> > to set orientation from panel") which is in drm-misc
> >
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_manager.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> I don't personally have objections to this, but (to my understanding)
> "the future" is that everyone should use panel_bridge. If we made the
> move to panel_bridge today then we wouldn't need to do this. In
> general I think panel_bridge would end up letting us delete a bunch of
> code...
>
> See commit 4e5763f03e10 ("drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Wrap panel with
> panel-bridge") for when this was done by ti-sn65dsi86.
>
> Then again, I spent a small amount of time looking into this and it's
> definitely non-trivial. Still likely worthwhile, but not worth
> blocking a tiny fix like this. It also should be fairly obvious that
> we should delete this when we switch to panel_bridge.
>
> Thus:
>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
>
> I'll assume that we'll just snooze this commit until drm-misc-next
> merges into a tree that msm-next is based on, which will probably be
> the next -rc1. If desired and Acked I could land this in
> drm-misc-next, but it's probably not worth it?

if you want to land this patch via drm-misc, which might be the
easier/faster route, then:

Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>

BR,
-R