Re: [PATCH] drm: tda998x: mali-dp: hdlcd: refactor connector registration

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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:59:43AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:25:52AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Hm, I entirely missed that part of the troubles. Anyway, if you all agree
> > on a patch I certainly won't block it, feel free to merge through suitable
> > trees (or I can smash it into drm-misc if that's wanted).
> 
> I think those who are interested in seeing the drm_connector_register()
> call disappear from tda998x only care about that happening, but not how
> it happens.
> 
> We have agreement between myself, Brian and Liviu on this approach, and
> I think everyone else is waiting for me to push out the commit so it can
> be used as the basis for their work.  I think everyone else is waiting
> for me to push something out which gets us past this log-jam.
> 
> I don't understand the connectivity between drm-misc and David's drm
> tree - so I'm going to let you make the decision on whether to merge
> this into drm-misc.  I normally send my pull requests for Armada and
> TDA998x changes to David, which means when I send my other TDA998x
> changes, the mali/tda998x commit will be included in that pull
> request too.  So I'm wondering whether it would make more sense for
> me to send it to David instead, or whether I need to send my other
> changes through drm-misc instead.  I find the whole drm vs drm-misc
> thing rather confusing.
> 
> I think we should get this accepted into drm trees before anyone bases
> their work on this commit (which is why I've been holding off during
> the last week, waiting for DRM folk to get back from Santa Fe and
> readjust to the higher atmospheric pressure!)
> 
> Anyway, here is my pull request for the mali/hdlcd/tda998x commit which
> I'd normally send to David - I don't mind which tree it goes into as
> long as things work out nicely.

drm-misc is just the collector for when it doesn't make sense to have a
driver or topic/feature pull request (or there isn't really a permanent
driver tree). Pull to Dave directly makes sense.
-Daniel

> 8<===
> 
> David,
> 
> Please incorporate the latest TDA998x I2C driver (drm-tda998x-mali
> branch), which can be found at:
> 
>   git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm.git drm-tda998x-mali
> 
> with SHA1 90731c24d2db7ec04df43ddbcee9605183d05187.
> 
> This change removes the call to drm_connector_register() which has been
> blocking the proper de-midlayer conversion of other DRM drivers.
> Unfortunately, hdlcd and mali have intimate dependencies on this change,
> which is why these drivers need to be fixed up in the same commit - they
> can't be separate commits without these drivers breaking.  All other
> DRM drivers which make use of tda998x (to my knowledge - armada, tilcdc)
> cope with this change.
> 
> This will update the following files:
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c   | 19 +++++++++++--------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c  | 18 +++++++++++-------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c |  8 --------
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> through these changes:
> 
> Brian Starkey (1):
>       drm/i2c: tda998x: mali-dp: hdlcd: refactor connector registration
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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