A patch series was floated in the drm mailing list which aimed to change the drm_connector and drm_encoder fields to pointer in the drm_connector_writeback structure, this received a huge pushback from the community but since i915 expects each connector present in the drm_device list to be a intel_connector but drm_writeback framework makes us have a connector which cannot be embedded in an intel_connector structure. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20220202081702.22119-1-suraj.kandpal@xxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20220202085429.22261-6-suraj.kandpal@xxxxxxxxx/ Since no one had an issue with encoder field being changed into a pointer it was decided to break the connector and encoder pointer changes into two different series.The encoder field changes is currently being worked upon by Abhinav Kumar and the changes have been merged. [3]https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/list/?series=633565 Going forward we use a drm_connector which is not embedded in intel_connector. We also create a intel_encoder to avoid changes to many iterators but no intel_connector. We also changed all iterators that go through connectors and add a check to only cast connectors which are not writeback connectors. I had also floated a previous series to Enable writeback but floating a new one as i created an extra patch in this series as suggested by Jani, Nikula for intel_connector iterator changes. Please go check the below link if interested. [4]https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/106902/ Suraj Kandpal (3): drm/i915: Define WD trancoder for i915 drm/i915 : Changing intel_connector iterators drm/i915: Enabling WD Transcoder drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_acpi.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_crtc.c | 6 + .../drm/i915/display/intel_crtc_state_dump.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_ddi.c | 6 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 63 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.h | 18 +- .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_debugfs.c | 13 +- .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_types.h | 33 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dpll.c | 6 + .../drm/i915/display/intel_modeset_setup.c | 114 ++- .../drm/i915/display/intel_modeset_verify.c | 17 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_opregion.c | 3 + .../gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wb_connector.h | 20 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.c | 704 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.h | 48 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 139 ++++ 20 files changed, 1154 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wb_connector.h create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.c create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_wd.h -- 2.37.0
