[Freedreno] [PATCH v1 2/4] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: add display dt nodes

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting mkrishn at codeaurora.org (2021-09-30 04:56:59)
> On 2021-08-19 01:27, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Krishna Manikandan (2021-08-18 03:27:02)
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280.dtsi
> >> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280.dtsi
> >> index 53a21d0..fd7ff1c 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280.dtsi
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280.dtsi
> >> +
> >> +                       status = "disabled";
> >> +
> >> +                       mdp: mdp at ae01000 {
> >
> > display-controller at ae01000
>
> Stephen,
>     In the current driver code, there is a substring comparison for "mdp"
> in device node name as part of probe sequence. If "mdp" is not present
> in the node name, it will
>     return an error resulting in probe failure. Can we continue using mdp
> as nodename instead of display controller?
>

Can we fix the driver to not look for node names and look for compatible
strings instead? It took me a minute to find compare_name_mdp() in
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c to understand what you're talking about.
Perhaps looking for qcom,mdp5 in there will be sufficient instead of
looking at the node name.