[PATCH 2/2] drm/bridge: synopsys: Add DW HDMI QP TX Controller driver

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea at collabora.com
Thu Aug 1 09:43:17 UTC 2024


On 8/1/24 11:50 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 01/08/2024 04:05, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>> The Synopsys DesignWare HDMI 2.1 Quad-Pixel (QP) TX Controller supports
>> the following features, among others:
> 
> ...
> 
>> +
>> +void dw_hdmi_qp_unbind(struct dw_hdmi_qp *hdmi)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dw_hdmi_qp_unbind);
> 
> This looks like quite useless export. Drop.
> 
> 
>> +
>> +void dw_hdmi_qp_resume(struct device *dev, struct dw_hdmi_qp *hdmi)
>> +{
>> +	dw_hdmi_qp_init_hw(hdmi);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dw_hdmi_qp_resume);
>> +
>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Algea Cao <algea.cao at rock-chips.com>");
>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea at collabora.com>");
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DW HDMI QP transmitter driver");
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:dw-hdmi-qp");
> 
> That's not a platform driver. That does not look like driver at all,
> just some helper code without any user

This is actually used to provide RK3588 HDMI output support:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240801-b4-rk3588-bridge-upstream-v2-3-9fa657a4e15b@collabora.com/

> 1. Drop alias.
> 2. Provide users for this code. You cannot add some helper functions
> which nothing uses.
> 3. Fix subject, commit msg, module description - there is no driver
> here, but helper functions. Otherwise how does it bind?

Indeed, that's just a left over from the initial dw-hdmi based 
implementation.  Will clean this up for v2.

Thanks for reviewing,
Cristian


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