On 11/06/18 10:56, Neil Armstrong wrote: > Hi Lee, > > On 11/06/2018 08:03, Lee Jones wrote: >> 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? > > Here are the hard the build dependency : > > Patch 2 depends on Patch 1 > Patch 5 depends on Patch 4 > Patch 6 depends on Patches 1 & 4 Ah, I missed the dependency of patch 6 on patch 1. So the whole series needs to be merged as a single unit. > >> >> 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. >> > > Great, thanks ! > > Neil > I'm OK if this goes through the mfd tree. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
