Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] R-Car DU: Convert LVDS code to bridge driver

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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:00:52AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> (Reducing the CC list as this became a Renesas-specific issue)
> 
> On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:39:25 EEST Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > This patch series addresses a design mistake that dates back from the
> > > initial DU support. Support for the LVDS encoders, which are IP cores
> > > separate from the DU, was bundled in the DU driver. Worse, both the DU
> > > and LVDS were described through a single DT node.
> > > 
> > > To fix the, patches 01/16 and 02/16 define new DT bindings for the LVDS
> > > encoders, and deprecate their description inside the DU bindings. To
> > > retain backward compatibility with existing DT, patches 03/16 to 08/16
> > > then patch the device tree at runtime to convert the legacy bindings to
> > > the new ones.
> > > 
> > > With the DT side addressed, patch 09/16 converts the LVDS support code to
> > > a separate bridge driver. Patches 11/16 to 16/16 then update all the
> > > device tree sources to the new DU and LVDS encoders bindings.
> > > 
> > > I decided to go for live DT patching in patch 08/16 because implementing
> > > support for both the legacy and new bindings in the driver would have been
> > > very intrusive, and prevented further cleanups. This version relies more
> > > heavily on overlays to avoid touching the internals of the OF core
> > > compared to v2, even if manual fixes to the device tree are still needed.
> > > 
> > > Compared to v3, this series uses the OF changeset API to update properties
> > > instead of accessing the internals of the property structure. This removes
> > > the local implementation of functions to look up nodes by path and update
> > > properties. In order to do this, I pulled in Pantelis' patch series
> > > titled "[PATCH v2 0/5] of: dynamic: Changesets helpers & fixes" at Rob's
> > > request, and rebased it while taking two small review comments into
> > > account.
> > > 
> > > Rob, I'd like this series to be merged in v4.17. As the changeset helpers
> > > are now a dependency, I'd need you to merge them early (ideally on top of
> > > v4.16-rc1) and provide a stable branch, or get your ack to merge them
> > > through Dave's tree if they don't conflict with what you have and will
> > > queue for v4.17.
> > > 
> > > This version also drops the small fix to the Porter board device tree that
> > > has been queued for v4.17 already.
> > > 
> > > Compared to v2, the biggest change is in patch 03/16. Following Rob's and
> > > Frank's reviews it was clear that modifying the unflattened DT structure
> > > of the overlay before applying it wasn't popular. I have thus decided to
> > > use one overlay source per SoC to move as much of the DT changes to the
> > > overlay as possible, and only perform manual modifications (that are
> > > still needed as some of the information is board-specific) on the system
> > > DT after applying the overlay. As a result the overlay is parsed and
> > > applied without being modified.
> > > 
> > > Compared to v1, this series update the r8a7792 and r8a7794 device tree
> > > sources and incorporate review feedback as described by the changelogs of
> > > individual patches.
> > > 
> > > Laurent Pinchart (11):
> > >   dt-bindings: display: renesas: Add R-Car LVDS encoder DT bindings
> > >   dt-bindings: display: renesas: Deprecate LVDS support in the DU
> > >     bindings
> > >   drm: rcar-du: Fix legacy DT to create LVDS encoder nodes
> > >   drm: rcar-du: Convert LVDS encoder code to bridge driver
> > >   ARM: dts: r8a7790: Convert to new LVDS DT bindings
> > >   ARM: dts: r8a7791: Convert to new LVDS DT bindings
> > >   ARM: dts: r8a7792: Convert to new DU DT bindings
> > >   ARM: dts: r8a7793: Convert to new LVDS DT bindings
> > >   ARM: dts: r8a7794: Convert to new DU DT bindings
> > >   arm64: dts: renesas: r8a7795: Convert to new LVDS DT bindings
> > >   arm64: dts: renesas: r8a7796: Convert to new LVDS DT bindings
> > 
> > I have marked the dts patches above as deferred as they depend
> > on the driver changes not to cause a regression. Please repost them
> > or otherwise ping me once the driver dependencies are present in an rc
> > release.
> 
> The driver changes have made it to v4.17-rc1. Is it too late for v4.18 ?

Unfortunately it is. Shall I apply them for v4.19?

> > I am assuming that the other patches in this series are not targeted
> > at the renesas tree.
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> > > Pantelis Antoniou (5):
> > >   of: dynamic: Add __of_node_dupv()
> > >   of: changesets: Introduce changeset helper methods
> > >   of: changeset: Add of_changeset_node_move method
> > >   of: unittest: changeset helpers
> > >   i2c: demux: Use changeset helpers for clarity
> > 
> > ...
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent Pinchart
> 
> 
> 



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