linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 24/24] drm/exynos: dsi: Adjust probe order

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Message-ID: <fc1fbd42-6ed4-9d67-2903-8f9cc2aaad43@samsung.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:35:05 +0200
From:   Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:     Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Jonas Karlman <jonas@...boo.se>,
        Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Robert Foss <robert.foss@...aro.org>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>
Cc:     Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>, freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@...aro.org>,
        Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>,
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        Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Chen Feng <puck.chen@...ilicon.com>,
        Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@...ilicon.com>,
        Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 24/24] drm/exynos: dsi: Adjust probe order

Hi,

On 13.09.2021 12:30, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> W dniu 10.09.2021 o 12:12, Maxime Ripard pisze:
>> Without proper care and an agreement between how DSI hosts and devices
>> drivers register their MIPI-DSI entities and potential components, we can
>> end up in a situation where the drivers can never probe.
>>
>> Most drivers were taking evasive maneuvers to try to workaround this,
>> but not all of them were following the same conventions, resulting in
>> various incompatibilities between DSI hosts and devices.
>>
>> Now that we have a sequence agreed upon and documented, let's convert
>> exynos to it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>
> This patch should be dropped, as it will probably break the driver.
>
> Exynos is already compatible with the pattern
> register-bus-then-get-sink, but it adds/removes panel/bridge
> dynamically, so it creates drm_device without waiting for downstream sink.

Right, this patch breaks Exynos DSI driver operation. Without it, the 
whole series works fine on all Exynos based test boards.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland