[PATCH v4 0/3] drm/panel-edp: remove several legacy compatibles used by the driver

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

There are two ways to describe an eDP panel in device tree. The
recommended way is to add a device on the AUX bus, ideally using the
edp-panel compatible. The legacy way is to define a top-level platform
device for the panel.

Document that adding support for eDP panels in a legacy way is strongly
discouraged (if not forbidden at all).

While we are at it, also drop legacy compatible strings and bindings for
five panels. These compatible strings were never used by a DT file
present in Linux kernel and most likely were never used with the
upstream Linux kernel.

The following compatibles were never used by the devices supported by
the upstream kernel and are a subject to possible removal:

- lg,lp097qx1-spa1
- samsung,lsn122dl01-c01
- sharp,ld-d5116z01b

I'm considering dropping them later, unless there is a good reason not
to do so.

To: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
To: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org>
To: Jessica Zhang <quic_jesszhan at quicinc.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
To: David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
To: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt at kernel.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor+dt at kernel.org>
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rockchip at lists.infradead.org
Cc: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo at quicinc.com>
Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>

Changes in v4:
- Rebased on top of drm-misc-next
- Added devicetree maintainers to cc list, missed them for v2/v3
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240531-edp-panel-drop-v3-0-4c98b2b95e3a@linaro.org

Changes in v3:
- Rephrased the warning comment, following some of Doug's suggestions.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529-edp-panel-drop-v2-0-fcfc457fc8dd@linaro.org

Changes in v2:
- Actually drop support for five panels acked by Doug Andersson
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240523-edp-panel-drop-v1-1-045d62511d09@linaro.org

---
Dmitry Baryshkov (3):
      drm/panel-edp: add fat warning against adding new panel compatibles
      dt-bindings: display: panel-edp-legacy: drop several eDP panels
      drm/panel-edp: drop several legacy panels

 .../bindings/display/panel/panel-edp-legacy.yaml   |  10 --
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c                  | 192 +++------------------
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 9324410846e13595d453b7f34508b1f6b15fb1a7
change-id: 20240523-edp-panel-drop-00aa239b3c6b

Best regards,
-- 
Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>