From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Sui Jingfeng <sui.jingfeng@linux.dev>
Cc: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jessica Zhang <quic_jesszhan@quicinc.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: [v1,1/3] drm/panel: ili9341: Correct use of device property APIs
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 11:32:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZjNPiBvLF3WcBftn@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e69b129-7539-4403-a621-bf3775aab995@linux.dev>
On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 12:27:14AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> On 2024/4/30 22:13, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 05:13:43AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
...
> > the former might be subdivided to "is it swnode backed or real fwnode one?"
> >
> Yeah,
> On non-DT cases, it can be subdivided to swnode backed case and ACPI fwnode backed case.
>
> - For swnode backed case: the device_get_match_data() don't has a implemented backend.
> - For ACPI fwnode backed case: the device_get_match_data() has a implemented backend.
>
> But the driver has *neither* software node support
True.
> nor ACPI support,
Not true.
So, slow down and take your time to get into the code and understand how it works.
> so that the rotation property can not get and ili9341_dpi_probe() will fails.
> So in total, this is not a 100% correct use of device property APIs.
>
> But I'm fine that if you want to leave(ignore) those less frequent use cases temporarily,
> there may have programmers want to post patches, to complete the missing in the future.
>
> So, there do have some gains on non-DT cases.
>
> - As you make it be able to compiled on X86 with the drm-misc-defconfig.
> - You cleanup the code up (at least patch 2 in this series is no obvious problem).
> - You allow people to modprobe it, and maybe half right and half undefined.
>
> But you do helps moving something forward, so congratulations for the wake up.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-02 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-25 14:26 [PATCH v1 0/3] drm/panel: ili9341: Obvious fixes Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-25 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] drm/panel: ili9341: Correct use of device property APIs Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-25 16:00 ` Neil Armstrong
2024-04-25 18:08 ` [v1,1/3] " Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-25 18:53 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-25 19:12 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-25 21:13 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-30 14:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-30 16:27 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-05-02 8:32 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2024-05-02 16:25 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-05-02 17:28 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-05-03 4:57 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-05-03 15:46 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-25 19:10 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-25 20:43 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-25 21:27 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-26 6:23 ` Maxime Ripard
2024-04-26 10:11 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-27 5:57 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-29 11:55 ` Maxime Ripard
2024-04-29 16:54 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-30 9:34 ` Maxime Ripard
2024-05-02 7:34 ` Neil Armstrong
2024-05-02 8:33 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-05-02 17:28 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-05-02 17:38 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-30 14:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-30 17:24 ` Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-30 10:19 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] " Dmitry Baryshkov
2024-04-25 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] drm/panel: ili9341: Respect deferred probe Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-25 16:00 ` Neil Armstrong
2024-04-30 10:21 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2024-04-30 16:50 ` [v1,2/3] " Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-25 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] drm/panel: ili9341: Use predefined error codes Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-25 16:00 ` Neil Armstrong
2024-04-30 16:54 ` [v1,3/3] " Sui Jingfeng
2024-04-25 15:08 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] drm/panel: ili9341: Obvious fixes Andy Shevchenko
2024-05-02 7:43 ` Neil Armstrong
2024-05-02 8:33 ` Andy Shevchenko
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