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

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

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 ?

> 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