Re: [RFC v2 0/8] Acer Chromebook R13 support

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Hi Ulrich,

On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 17:53:54 EEST Ulrich Hecht wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:33:09PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >> From what I understand you
> >> rebased the patches from the chromium kernel to mainline. So you should
> >> keep the signed-off-by from the original author and just add you
> >> signed-off-by below that.
> >> Also it would be nice to CC these persons so that they are aware of your
> >> effort.> 
> > Additionally, make sure the author and commit messages are preserved when
> > you send patches. You can add your own message in addition to your SoB,
> > but please try to preserve history.
> 
> Fair enough, but I'm not sure what exactly to include. The chromium
> commits include, among other things:
> 
> - bugtracker numbers and test cases
> - "Change-Id" and "Commit-Ready" (no idea what those are)
> - "Reviewed-on", containing links to chromium-review.googlesource.com
> 
> With all changes to the PS8640 driver concatenated and non-standard
> tags removed, the commit message would look like this:
> 
> =============================
>     CHROMIUM: drm/bridge: Add I2C based driver for ps8640 bridge
> 
>     This patch adds drm_bridge driver for parade DSI to eDP bridge chip.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jitao Shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     (am from https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8357851/)
>     Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: cawa cheng <cawa.cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
>     FIXUP: FROMLIST: drm/bridge: Add I2C based driver for ps8640 bridge
> 
>     chromeos-3.18 currently has FROMLIST v15 of the PS8640 driver.
>     This version is incompatible with UPSTREAM version of the Mediatek
>     DRM driver.
> 
>     To quote Philipp Zabel:
>     "The main DRM driver mtk_drm_drv now calls
>     drm_connector_register_all() after drm_dev_register() in the
>     mtk_drm_bind() function. That function should iterate over all
>     connectors and call drm_connector_register() for each of them.
>     The call to drm_connector_init() from mtk_hdmi_bridge_attach()
>     should be enough to make this happen.
> 
>     The drm_connector_(un)register calls also have to be removed
>     from the ps8640 driver."
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jitao Shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: PC Liao <pc.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
>     CHROMIUM: drm/bridge: ps8640: Add a 3 ms delay before unmuting output
> 
>     For current ps8640 firmware, the PS_GPIO9 signal only indicates the
> bridge has seen the attached panel's HPD signal and read its EDID. 
> Unfortunately, the bridge may not yet be ready to properly handle DSI/eDP
> traffic yet.
> 
>     For now, Paradetech has recommended adding a 3 ms delay after PS_GPIO9
>     before starting video signal transmission.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jitao Shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>     Tested-by: cawa cheng <cawa.cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: jitao shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: jitao shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
>     CHROMIUM: drm/bridge: ps8640: disable MIPI MCS
> 
>     Disable PS8640 MIPI MCS commands to workaround an issue where normal
>     MIPI DSI signals are sometimes recognized as an MSC command that can,
>     for example, disable the bridge output.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jitao Shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
>     CHROMIUM: drm/bridge: ps8640: Use individual regulators instead of bulk
> 
>     According to the latest information from Parade, the PS8640 1.2 V
>     supply must be enabled before 3.3 V.
>     So, split the bulk regulator into separate individual regulators that
>     can be enabled independently.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jitao Shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>     Tested-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
>     CHROMIUM: drm/bridge: ps8640: add 5ms delay between v12 and v33
> 
>     According to Parade, the PS8640 1.2V must be enabled 5 ms before its
>     3.3V. Otherwise, the PS8650 MCU may hang, and its settings cannot be
>     written correctly, leading to a black screen.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jitao Shi <jitao.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Tested-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> =============================
> 
> That keeps chronology and attribution intact, but is somewhat
> redundant. Any suggestions on how to digest it? Or should I just add
> it as is?

I would keep all the SoB lines, but apart from that I don't think there's a 
need to copy all commit messages. You can extract relevant information for a 
digest, but there's no point in copying the whole history.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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