On 02/22/18 14:10, Frank Rowand wrote: > Hi Laurent, Rob, > > Thanks for the prompt spin to address my concerns. There are some small > technical issues. > > I did not read the v3 patch until today. v3 through v6 are still using the > old overlay apply method which uses an expanded device tree as input. > > Rob, I don't see my overlay patches in you for-next branch, and I have > not seen an "Applied" message from you. What is the status of the > overlay patches? > > Comments in the patch below. > > > On 02/22/18 05:13, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >> The internal LVDS encoders now have their own DT bindings. Before >> switching the driver infrastructure to those new bindings, implement >> backward-compatibility through live DT patching. >> >> Patching is disabled and will be enabled along with support for the new >> DT bindings in the DU driver. >> >> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Changes since v5: >> >> - Use a private copy of rcar_du_of_changeset_add_property() >> >> Changes since v3: >> >> - Use the OF changeset API >> - Use of_graph_get_endpoint_by_regs() >> - Replace hardcoded constants by sizeof() >> >> Changes since v2: >> >> - Update the SPDX headers to use C-style comments in header files >> - Removed the manually created __local_fixups__ node >> - Perform manual fixups on live DT instead of overlay >> >> Changes since v1: >> >> - Select OF_FLATTREE >> - Compile LVDS DT bindings patch code when DRM_RCAR_LVDS is selected >> - Update the SPDX headers to use GPL-2.0 instead of GPL-2.0-only >> - Turn __dtb_rcar_du_of_lvds_(begin|end) from u8 to char >> - Pass void begin and end pointers to rcar_du_of_get_overlay() >> - Use of_get_parent() instead of accessing the parent pointer directly >> - Find the LVDS endpoints nodes based on the LVDS node instead of the >> root of the overlay >> - Update to the <soc>-lvds compatible string format >> --- >> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig | 2 + >> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Makefile | 7 +- >> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.c | 342 +++++++++++++++++++++ >> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.h | 20 ++ >> .../gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7790.dts | 79 +++++ >> .../gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7791.dts | 53 ++++ >> .../gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7793.dts | 53 ++++ >> .../gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7795.dts | 53 ++++ >> .../gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7796.dts | 53 ++++ >> 9 files changed, 661 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.c >> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of.h >> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7790.dts >> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7791.dts >> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7793.dts >> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7795.dts >> create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_of_lvds_r8a7796.dts >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig >> index 5d0b4b7119af..3f83352a7313 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig < snip > > > becomes: > > ret = of_overlay_fdt_apply(dtb->begin, &ovcs_id); > > If my overlay patches do not exist, there are other small errors > in the code block above. I'll ignore them for the moment. > > A quick scan of the rest of the code looks OK. I'll read through it > more carefully, but wanted to get this reply out without further > delay. < snip > I was hoping to be able to convert the .dts files to use sugar syntax instead of hand coding the fragment nodes, but for this specific set of files I failed, since the labels that would have been required do not already exist in the base .dts files that that overlays would be applied against. Oh well. It was an interesting exercise anyway, trying to be crafty. -Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html