[PATCH v2 3/3] drm: bridge: Add waveshare DSI2DPI unit driver

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Tue Aug 5 06:18:08 UTC 2025


On 05/08/2025 08:11, Liu Ying wrote:
> On 08/05/2025, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 05/08/2025 04:22, Liu Ying wrote:
>>> Hi Joseph,
>>>
>>> On 08/04/2025, Joseph Guo wrote:
>>>> Waveshare touchscreen consists of a DPI panel and a driver board.
>>>> The waveshare driver board consists of ICN6211 and a MCU to
>>>> convert DSI to DPI and control the backlight.
>>>> This driver treats the MCU and ICN6211 board as a whole unit.
>>>> It can support all resolution waveshare DSI2DPI based panel,
>>>> the timing table should come from 'panel-dpi' panel in the device tree.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joseph Guo <qijian.guo at nxp.com>
>>>
>>> For next version, you may add:
>>> Suggested-by: Liu Ying <victor.liu at nxp.com>
>>
>> Why?
> 
> As I replied in the cover letter, I provided general idea for this
> patch series in NXP down stream kernel.  Same for the DT binding patches.

General idea to add support for new driver? So like every patch being a
result of for example task from manager means "Suggested-by"? Since when
new device support is treated as suggested-by?

I also do not understand how downstream kernel is relevant here.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


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