Re: [PATCH] drm: improve the documentation of connector hpd ops

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Hi Abhinav,

Thank you for the patch (and thank to Dmitry for pinging me on IRC, this
patch got burried in my inbox).

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 01:13:58PM -0700, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> While making the changes in [1], it was noted that the documentation
> of the enable_hpd() and disable_hpd() does not make it clear that
> these ops should not try to do hpd state maintenance and should only
> attempt to enable/disable hpd related hardware for the connector.

s/attempt to //

> 
> The state management of these calls to make sure these calls are
> balanced is handled by the DRM core and we should keep it that way
> to minimize the overhead in the drivers which implement these ops.
> 
> [1]: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/558387/
> 

You could add a

Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> index e3c3ac615909..a33cf7488737 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
> @@ -1154,6 +1154,11 @@ struct drm_connector_helper_funcs {
>  	 * This operation is optional.
>  	 *
>  	 * This callback is used by the drm_kms_helper_poll_enable() helpers.
> +	 *
> +	 * This operation does not need to perform any hpd state tracking as
> +	 * the DRM core handles that maintenance and ensures the calls to enable
> +	 * and disable hpd are balanced.
> +	 *
>  	 */
>  	void (*enable_hpd)(struct drm_connector *connector);
>  
> @@ -1165,6 +1170,11 @@ struct drm_connector_helper_funcs {
>  	 * This operation is optional.
>  	 *
>  	 * This callback is used by the drm_kms_helper_poll_disable() helpers.
> +	 *
> +	 * This operation does not need to perform any hpd state tracking as
> +	 * the DRM core handles that maintenance and ensures the calls to enable
> +	 * and disable hpd are balanced.
> +	 *
>  	 */
>  	void (*disable_hpd)(struct drm_connector *connector);
>  };

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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