[Resending since the discussion with Laurent has died with no response received for more than three weeks] Supporting DP/USB-C can result in a chain of several transparent bridges (PHY, redrivers, mux, etc). All attempts to implement DP support in a different way resulted either in series of hacks or in device tree not reflecting the actual hardware design. This results in drivers having similar boilerplate code for such bridges. Next, these drivers are susceptible to -EPROBE_DEFER loops: the next bridge can either be probed from the bridge->attach callback, when it is too late to return -EPROBE_DEFER, or from the probe() callback, when the next bridge might not yet be available, because it depends on the resources provided by the probing device. Device links can not fully solve this problem since there are mutual dependencies between adjancent devices. Last, but not least, this results in the the internal knowledge of DRM subsystem slowly diffusing into other subsystems, like PHY or USB/TYPEC. To solve all these issues, define a separate DRM helper, which creates separate aux device just for the bridge. During probe such aux device doesn't result in the EPROBE_DEFER loops. Instead it allows the device drivers to probe properly, according to the actual resource dependencies. The bridge auxdevs are then probed when the next bridge becomes available, sparing drivers from drm_bridge_attach() returning -EPROBE_DEFER. Changes since v3: - Moved bridge driver to gpu/drm/bridge (Neil Armstrong) - Renamed it to aux-bridge (since there is already a simple_bridge driver) - Made CONFIG_OF mandatory for this driver (Neil Armstrong) - Added missing kfree and ida_free (Dan Carpenter) Changes since v2: - ifdef'ed bridge->of_node access (LKP) Changes since v1: - Added EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL / MODULE_LICENSE / etc. to drm_simple_bridge Dmitry Baryshkov (3): drm/bridge: add transparent bridge helper phy: qcom: qmp-combo: switch to DRM_AUX_BRIDGE usb: typec: nb7vpq904m: switch to DRM_AUX_BRIDGE drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig | 9 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Makefile | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-bridge.c | 132 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/phy/qualcomm/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-combo.c | 44 +------- drivers/usb/typec/mux/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/usb/typec/mux/nb7vpq904m.c | 44 +------- include/drm/bridge/aux-bridge.h | 19 ++++ 8 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/aux-bridge.c create mode 100644 include/drm/bridge/aux-bridge.h -- 2.39.2
