linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] drm/bridge: Drop conditionals around of

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Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2023 08:42:05 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>
Cc:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@...el.com>,
        Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>,
        Robert Foss <rfoss@...nel.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Jonas Karlman <jonas@...boo.se>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@...asonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] drm/bridge: Drop conditionals around of_node pointers

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 1:10 AM Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com> wrote:
>
> This patch is based on commit c9e358dfc4a8 ("driver-core: remove
> conditionals around devicetree pointers").
>
> Having conditional around the of_node pointer of the drm_bridge
> structure turns out to make driver code use ugly #ifdef blocks. Drop the
> conditionals to simplify drivers. While this slightly increases the size
> of struct drm_bridge on non-OF system, the number of bridges used today
> and foreseen tomorrow on those systems is very low, so this shouldn't be
> an issue.
>
> So drop #if conditionals by adding struct device_node forward declaration.
>
> Suggested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@...asonboard.com>
> ---
> v5->v6:
>  * Updated commit description.
>  * Added Rb tag from Douglas Anderson and Laurent
> v5:
>  * Split from patch#2
>  * Updated commit description
>  * Added struct device_node forward declaration.
> ---
>  include/drm/drm_bridge.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I think this has had enough time to marinate, so landed to drm-misc-next:

d8dfccde2709 drm/bridge: Drop conditionals around of_node pointers