Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] drm/dsi: DSI for devices with different control bus

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 02:48:29PM +0530, Archit Taneja wrote:
> We are currently restricted when it comes to supporting DSI on devices
> that have a non-DSI control bus. For example, DSI encoder chips are
> available in the market that are configured via i2c. Configuring their
> registers via DSI bus is either optional or not available at all.
> 
> These devices still need to pass DSI parameters (data lanes, mode flags
> etc) to the DSI host they are connected to. We don't have a way to do
> that at the moment.
> 
> After some discussions on the previous RFC[1], we decided to support this
> by providing additional API in drm_mipi_dsi.c which lets us create new DSI
> devices without the need of them to have a DT node.
> 
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/30/42
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - Simplify refactoring as suggested by Thierry.
> - Use abbreviations correctly.
> - Drop "drm/dsi: Check for used channels"
> - Return the correct encoded error code for of_mipi_dsi_device_add
>   when CONFIG_OF is disabled.
> - Use mipi_dsi_device_unregister to implement mipi_dsi_remove_device_fn()
>   too.
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Added a new patch that fixes build issues when CONFIG_OF is not set.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> 
> - Incorporated misc comments by Andrzej. Changed from RFC to a PATCH set.
> - Fixed htmldocs warnings.
> 
> 
> Archit Taneja (5):
>   drm/dsi: check for CONFIG_OF when defining of_mipi_dsi_device_add
>   drm/dsi: Use mipi_dsi_device_register_full for DSI device creation
>   drm/dsi: Try to match non-DT DSI devices
>   drm/dsi: Add routine to unregister a DSI device
>   drm/dsi: Get DSI host by DT device node
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h     |  26 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

I've applied this with minor fixups and cleanups to the commit messages.

Thanks,
Thierry

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