[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 15/20] drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display: remove I2C_CLASS_DDC support

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> After removal of the legacy EEPROM driver and I2C_CLASS_DDC support in
> olpc_dcon there's no i2c client driver left supporting I2C_CLASS_DDC.
> Class-based device auto-detection is a legacy mechanism and shouldn't
> be used in new code. So we can remove this class completely now.

So this is copy-pasted to all commits and the cover letter, but please
do explain why there are no functional changes here (or are there?),
without me having to go through the i2c stack and try to find the
commits alluded to in "After removal of the legacy ...".

What does this mean?


BR,
Jani.


>
> Preferably this series should be applied via the i2c tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com>
>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_gmbus.c |    1 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sdvo.c  |    1 -
>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_gmbus.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_gmbus.c
> index 40d7b6f3f..e9e4dcf34 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_gmbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_gmbus.c
> @@ -899,7 +899,6 @@ int intel_gmbus_setup(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>  		}
>  
>  		bus->adapter.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> -		bus->adapter.class = I2C_CLASS_DDC;
>  		snprintf(bus->adapter.name,
>  			 sizeof(bus->adapter.name),
>  			 "i915 gmbus %s", gmbus_pin->name);
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sdvo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sdvo.c
> index a636f42ce..5e64d1baf 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sdvo.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_sdvo.c
> @@ -3311,7 +3311,6 @@ intel_sdvo_init_ddc_proxy(struct intel_sdvo_ddc *ddc,
>  	ddc->ddc_bus = ddc_bus;
>  
>  	ddc->ddc.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> -	ddc->ddc.class = I2C_CLASS_DDC;
>  	snprintf(ddc->ddc.name, I2C_NAME_SIZE, "SDVO %c DDC%d",
>  		 port_name(sdvo->base.port), ddc_bus);
>  	ddc->ddc.dev.parent = &pdev->dev;
>

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel