On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:01:53PM +0800, icenowy@xxxxxxx wrote: > 在 2017-06-07 22:38，Maxime Ripard 写道： > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:01:02PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote: > > > >I have no idea what this is supposed to be doing either. > > > > > > > >I might be wrong, but I really feel like there's a big mismatch > > > >between your commit log, and what you actually implement. > > > > > > > >In your commit log, you should state: > > > > > > > >A) What is the current behaviour > > > >B) Why that is a problem > > > >C) How do you address it > > > > > > > >And you don't. > > > > > > > >However, after discussing it with Chen-Yu, it seems like you're trying > > > >to have all the mixers probed before the TCONs. If that is so, there's > > > >nothing specific to the H3 here, and we also have the same issue on > > > >dual-pipeline DE1 (A10, A20, A31). Chen-Yu worked on that a bit, but > > > >the easiest solution would be to move from a DFS algorithm to walk > > > >down the graph to a BFS one. > > > > > > > >That way, we would add all mixers first, then the TCONs, then the > > > >encoders, and the component framework will probe them in order. > > > > > > No. I said that they're swappable, however, I don't want to > > > implement the swap now, but hardcode 0-0 1-1 connection. > > > > We're on the same page, it's definitely not what I was mentionning > > here. This would require a significant rework, and the usecase is > > still unclear for now. > > > > > However, as you and Chen-Yu said, device tree should reflect the > > > real hardware, there will be bonus endpoints for the swapped > > > connection. > > > > If by bonus you mean connections from mixer 0 to tcon 1 and mixer 1 to > > tcon 0, then yes, we're going to need it. > > > > > What I want to do is to ignore the bonus connection, in order to > > > prevent them from confusing the code. > > > > > > If you just change the bind sequence, I think it cannot be > > > prevented that wrong connections will be bound. > > > > This is where I don't follow you anymore. The component framework > > doesn't list connections but devices. The swapped connections do not > > matter here, we have the same set of devices: mixer0, mixer1, tcon0 > > and tcon1. > > > > The thing that does change with your patch is that before, the binding > > sequence would have been mixer0, tcon0, tcon1, mixer1. With your > > patch, it's mixer0, tcon0, mixer1, tcon1. > > > > So, again, stating what issue you were seeing before making this patch > > would be very helpful to see what you're trying to do / fix. > > So maybe I can drop the forward search (searching output) code, and keep > only the backward search (search input) code in TCON? > > Forward search code is only used when binding, but backward search is used > for TCON to find connected mixer. It is hard to talk about a solution, when it's not clear what the issue is. So please state > > > >A) What is the current behaviour > > > >B) Why that is a problem > > > >C) How do you address it We'll talk about a solution once this is done. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
