linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] drm/i2c: tda998x: prepare for video input configuration

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Date:	Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:53:14 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>
Cc:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Darren Etheridge <darren.etheridge@...il.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] drm/i2c: tda998x: prepare for video input
	configuration

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 07:33:43AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:36:05 +0100
> > Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> > AFAIK, the TI boards have no "pin-swapped", nor has the Cubox (there is
> >> > no need to set the bit CFG_GRA_SWAPRB of the register LCD_SPU_DMA_CTRL0
> >> > of the Dove lcd for RGB or YUV formats).
> >> >
> >> > Which board needs a special VIP configuration?
> >>
> >> If you run the NXP driver, and then run this driver, things get messed
> >> up - which has already been covered months ago when this patch was first
> >> brought up.
> >>
> >> It's there to ensure that the TDA998x is correctly configured no matter
> >> what it's previous state is, and prevent the thing being fragile as hell.
> >
> > The NXP driver will never go to the mainline, so, I don't see the
> > problem. If you want to use it to test some other drivers, you should
> > better patch it instead of adding useless code in the TDA998x driver.
> 
> I don't think it really matters for the end user if NXP isn't
> mainline.  If they are jumping between vendor kernel and mainline, and
> inheriting some state left over from the NXP driver in vendor kernel,
> it makes debugging very confusing.  It would be less of an issue if a
> warm reset actually reset the tda998x part, but that is not the case,
> it is better to rely less on the hw state when the driver is loaded,
> IMHO.

Absolutely right, thanks for backing up what I've said.  I've done exactly
that - switching between the NXP driver and the mainline driver to debug
other problems, and not having the TDA998x setup correctly just makes the
job much harder and time consuming.

I keep both drivers available in my internal git tree so that I can switch
between them when necessary.
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