Hi Laurent, On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 05:58:56PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > This patch series merges the omapdrm and omapdss drivers into a single driver > called omapdrm. The split in two drivers was historical, in order to support > the FBDEV, V4L2 and DRM/KMS APIs. Now that the driver supports DRM/KMS only > there's no need to keep two seperate drivers. > > The series starts with a few cleanups (01/48 to 03/48) and quickly proceeds to > merging the omapdss and omapdss-base modules (04/48). It then prepares the > omapdss code (05/48 to 08/48), perform a few more cleanups (09/48 to 11/48) > and prepares the omapdrm code (12/48). > > Patches 13/48 to 19/48 prepare the connector, encoder and panel drivers. All > those drivers defer probing when their video source can't be found at probe > time. This would cause endless probe deferral when merging omapdrm and omapdss > as the drivers need omapdss to be fully initialized to probe successfully, but > cause omapdrm to defer probing when they're not available. > > Patch 20/48 merges the omapdrm and omapdss drivers. > > The next patches are added bonuses that start removal of global variables from > the driver. The code relies heavily on global variables for objects that are > instance-specific, and should thus be dynamically allocated. Most of the > patches change internal APIs to pass objects to driver functions (21/48 to > 28/48, 36/48, 39/48 to 41/38, 43/48 to 45/48) with a few miscellaneous > cleanups (29/48, 35/48, 37/48, 38/48, 42/48). Patches 30/48 to 34/48 and 46/48 > then allocate instance objects dynamically to replace global variables, and > patches 47/48 and 48/48 move global variables to existing instance objects. > > The series has been tested on a Pandaboard with the DVI and HDMI output. Nice cleanup! :) -- Sebastian
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