Re: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: display: panel: add panel-mipi-dsi-bringup

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On 17/05/2023 00:13, Paulo Pavacic wrote:
> Hello, thank you for your time to review this patch and sorry for not
> addressing all of the concerns, it was done unintentionally. This is
> my first contribution to the Linux kernel and it is quite a process.
> I have run those two scripts and haven't received any errors I have
> latest master cloned so I will check what I did wrong.
> 
> The thing I would like to get approval on before I try anything else
> is the name 'panel-mipi-dsi-bringup':
> 
>> Still wrong filename. You did not respond to my previous comments, so I
> don't really understand what's this.
>>
>> Judging by compatible, this should be fannal,c3004.yaml
>>
>> If not, explain please.
>>
>> Missing user of the bindings - driver or DTS. Please sent patches together as patchset.
> 
> 
> I wasn't sure how to name it and this name seemed fit. I'm not sure
> how to be concise about this, but here is the full story as to why I
> have done that:
> 
> I got a task to enable panel for which working driver wasn't
> available. I have started testing raydium driver and modifying parts
> of it until I got it working.
> Driver was modified quite a lot, new functions, macros and structures
> were added which resulted in a new driver.
> Therefore I have made a simple driver which I have submitted for a
> review which will probably be rejected now due tomany reasons I have
> noticed after sending it:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO9szn03msW6pu37Zws5EaFGL10rjp9ugPdCuDvOPuQRU72gVQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
> 
> While talking with manufacturers of the panel I have figured out that
> they aren't that familiar with the Linux kernel.
> They had previously only enabled  it on bare metal (PLA?) and provided
> me with the initialization sequences. Initialization sequences are hex
> values sent over MIPI DSI to initialize panel controller.
> Initialization sequences sometimes also require delays after certain
> commands and for different panels it can be very different.
> I believe I have simplified it so that someone can follow comments
> inside of the driver and try to enable mipi dsi panel by copy pasting
> initialization code from bare metal system and doing minor
> modifications.
> Since I have targeted this at people who need to enable their panels
> for the first time name seemed okay. I thought that since there is
> panel-simple.yml that panel-mipi-dsi-bringup.yml would be acceptable
> name.

Bindings are for hardware, not driver, so they describe the hardware panel.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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