[PATCH v14 01/28] drm/connector: Introduce an HDMI connector initialization function

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 12:13:34PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> A lot of the various HDMI drivers duplicate some logic that depends on
> the HDMI spec itself and not really a particular hardware
> implementation.
> 
> Output BPC or format selection, infoframe generation are good examples
> of such areas.
> 
> This creates a lot of boilerplate, with a lot of variations, which makes
> it hard for userspace to rely on, and makes it difficult to get it right
> for drivers.
> 
> In the next patches, we'll add a lot of infrastructure around the
> drm_connector and drm_connector_state structures, which will allow to
> abstract away the duplicated logic. This infrastructure comes with a few
> requirements though, and thus we need a new initialization function.
> 
> Hopefully, this will make drivers simpler to handle, and their behaviour
> more consistent.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson at raspberrypi.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sui Jingfeng <sui.jingfeng at linux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/drm/drm_connector.h     |  5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 44 insertions(+)


Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>

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With best wishes
Dmitry