On Fri, 08 Jun 2018, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On 08/06/18 10:17, Neil Armstrong wrote: > > On 08/06/2018 09:53, Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> On 06/01/2018 10:19 AM, Neil Armstrong wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> The new Google "Fizz" Intel-based ChromeOS device is gaining CEC support > >>> through it's Embedded Controller, to enable the Linux CEC Core to communicate > >>> with it and get the CEC Physical Address from the correct HDMI Connector, the > >>> following must be added/changed: > >>> - Add the CEC sub-device registration in the ChromeOS EC MFD Driver > >>> - Add the CEC related commands and events definitions into the EC MFD driver > >>> - Add a way to get a CEC notifier with it's (optional) connector name > >>> - Add the CEC notifier to the i915 HDMI driver > >>> - Add the proper ChromeOS EC CEC Driver > >>> > >>> The CEC notifier with the connector name is the tricky point, since even on > >>> Device-Tree platforms, there is no way to distinguish between multiple HDMI > >>> connectors from the same DRM driver. The solution I implemented is pretty > >>> simple and only adds an optional connector name to eventually distinguish > >>> an HDMI connector notifier from another if they share the same device. > >> > >> This looks good to me, which brings me to the next question: how to merge > >> this? > >> > >> It touches on three subsystems (media, drm, mfd), so that makes this > >> tricky. > >> > >> I think there are two options: either the whole series goes through the > >> media tree, or patches 1+2 go through drm and 3-6 through media. If there > >> is a high chance of conflicts in the mfd code, then it is also an option to > >> have patches 3-6 go through the mfd subsystem. > > > > I think patches 3-6 should go in the mfd tree, Lee is used to handle this, > > then I think the rest could go in the media tree. > > > > Lee, do you think it would be possible to have an immutable branch with patches 3-6 ? > > > > Could we have an immutable branch from media tree with patch 1 to be merged in > > the i915 tree for patch 2 ? > > > > Or patch 1+2 could me merged into the i915 tree and generate an immutable branch > > I think patches 1+2 can just go to the i915 tree. The i915 driver changes often, > so going through that tree makes sense. The cec-notifier code is unlikely to change, > and I am fine with that patch going through i915. > > > for media to merge the mfd branch + patch 7 ? > > Patch 7? I only count 6? > > If 1+2 go through drm and 3-6 go through mfd, then media isn't affected at all. > There is chance of a conflict when this is eventually pushed to mainline for > the media Kconfig, but that's all. What are the *build* dependencies within the set? I'd be happy to send out a pull-request for either all of the patches, or just the MFD changes once I've had chance to review them. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Linaro Services Technical Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
