linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/15] drm: of: try binding port parent node instead of the port itself

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Message-ID: <20250723-bandicoot-of-simple-support-b42bcb@houat>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:02:02 +0200
From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
To: Otto Pflüger <otto.pflueger@...cue.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, 
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, 
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, 
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@...il.com>, 
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>, Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>, 
	Kevin Tang <kevin.tang@...soc.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/15] drm: of: try binding port parent node instead
 of the port itself

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 04:41:06PM +0200, Otto Pflüger wrote:
> The drm_of_component_probe function is intended to bind all devices in
> an OF graph given a set of ports linked using the "ports" property on a
> main device node. This means that it should also bind the components
> providing these ports, not just the components of other ports connected
> to them. In order to do this, it calls drm_of_component_match_add with
> a pointer to each port node after checking that its parent node is a
> device.
> 
> However, when given a pointer to the port node, the compare_of callback
> does not match it with a device node and thus fails to detect that the
> node belongs to a component. Fix this by passing a pointer to the parent
> node here too.
> 
> Currently only the Unisoc platform driver relies on this feature, which
> was previously broken and is fixed by this change. On other platforms,
> the "ports" property points to ports that are not part of a component,
> i.e. the components only have indirect connections to the main node.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Otto Pflüger <otto.pflueger@...cue.de>

Should this get a Fixes tag?

Maxime

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