[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v7 2/4] drm/panel: set display info in panel attach

[Sam Ravnborg]

Hi Derek.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 03:15:19PM -0700, dbasehore . wrote:
> Hi Sam, thanks for pointing out the potential conflict.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:19 AM Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Derek.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 07:16:57PM -0700, Derek Basehore wrote:
> > > Devicetree systems can set panel orientation via a panel binding, but
> > > there's no way, as is, to propagate this setting to the connector,
> > > where the property need to be added.
> > > To address this, this patch sets orientation, as well as other fixed
> > > values for the panel, in the drm_panel_attach function. These values
> > > are stored from probe in the drm_panel struct.
> >
> > This approch seems to conflict with work done by Laurent where the
> > ownership/creation of the connector will be moved to the display controller.
> >
> > If I understand it correct then there should not be a 1:1 relation
> > between a panel and a connector anymore.
> 
> 
> Can you point me to this work?
Please take a look at the series with subject:
"[PATCH 00/60] drm/omap: Replace custom display drivers with drm_bridge
and drm_panel"
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11034175/

Laurent has done a great job explaining the background,
If you look into the patched you will see the idea is that a drm_panel
no longer get attached to a drm_controller - it will be an argument to
get_modes().

	Sam