Re: [PATCH v8 04/10] drm: bridge: dw_mipi_dsi: allow bridge daisy chaining

[Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>]

On Wed, 03 Jun 2020, Laurent Pinchart 
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> Hi Adrian, 

Hi Laurent,

> 
> Thank you for the patch. 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:19:46AM +0300, Adrian Ratiu wrote: 
>> Up until now the assumption was that the synopsis dsi bridge 
>> will directly connect to an encoder provided by the platform 
>> driver, but the current practice for drivers is to leave the 
>> encoder empty via the simple encoder API and add their logic to 
>> their own drm_bridge.   Thus we need an ablility to connect the 
>> DSI bridge to another bridge provided by the platform driver, 
>> so we extend the dw_mipi_dsi bind() API with a new "previous 
>> bridge" arg instead of just hardcoding NULL.   Cc: Laurent 
>> Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: 
>> Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> --- New in v8.  --- 
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c   | 6 ++++-- 
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi-rockchip.c | 2 +- 
>>  include/drm/bridge/dw_mipi_dsi.h                | 5 ++++- 3 
>>  files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 
>>  diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c index 
>> 16fd87055e7b7..140ff40fa1b62 100644 --- 
>> a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c +++ 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c @@ -1456,11 
>> +1456,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dw_mipi_dsi_remove); 
>>  /* 
>>   * Bind/unbind API, used from platforms based on the component 
>>   framework.  */ 
>> -int dw_mipi_dsi_bind(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi, struct 
>> drm_encoder *encoder) +int dw_mipi_dsi_bind(struct dw_mipi_dsi 
>> *dsi, +		     struct drm_encoder *encoder, + 
>> struct drm_bridge *prev_bridge) 
>>  { int ret;  
>> -	ret = drm_bridge_attach(encoder, &dsi->bridge, NULL, 0); + 
>> ret = drm_bridge_attach(encoder, &dsi->bridge, prev_bridge, 0); 
> 
> Please note that chaining of bridges doesn't work well if 
> multiple bridges in the chain try to create a connector. This is 
> why a DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR flag has been added, with a 
> helper to create a connector for a chain of bridges 
> (drm_bridge_connector_init()).  This won't play well with the 
> component framework. I would recommend using the 
> of_drm_find_bridge() instead in the rockchip driver, and 
> deprecating dw_mipi_dsi_bind(). 
>

Thank you for this insight, indeed the bridge dw_mipi_dsi_bind() 
is clunky and we're making it even more so by possibly 
re-inventing drm_bridge_connector_init() with it in a way which 
can't work (well it does work but can lead to those nasty 
multiple-encoder corner-cases you mention).

I'll address this before posting v9, to try to move to 
of_drm_find_bridge() and remove dw_mipi_dsi_bind().

>>  	if (ret) {
>>  		DRM_ERROR("Failed to initialize bridge with drm\n");
>>  		return ret;
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi-rockchip.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi-rockchip.c
>> index 3feff0c45b3f7..83ef43be78135 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi-rockchip.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/dw-mipi-dsi-rockchip.c
>> @@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ static int dw_mipi_dsi_rockchip_bind(struct device *dev,
>>  		return ret;
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	ret = dw_mipi_dsi_bind(dsi->dmd, &dsi->encoder);
>> +	ret = dw_mipi_dsi_bind(dsi->dmd, &dsi->encoder, NULL);
>>  	if (ret) {
>>  		DRM_DEV_ERROR(dev, "Failed to bind: %d\n", ret);
>>  		return ret;
>> diff --git a/include/drm/bridge/dw_mipi_dsi.h b/include/drm/bridge/dw_mipi_dsi.h
>> index b0e390b3288e8..699b3531f5b36 100644
>> --- a/include/drm/bridge/dw_mipi_dsi.h
>> +++ b/include/drm/bridge/dw_mipi_dsi.h
>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
>>  #include <drm/drm_modes.h>
>>  
>>  struct drm_display_mode;
>> +struct drm_bridge;
>>  struct drm_encoder;
>>  struct dw_mipi_dsi;
>>  struct mipi_dsi_device;
>> @@ -62,7 +63,9 @@ struct dw_mipi_dsi *dw_mipi_dsi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev,
>>  				      const struct dw_mipi_dsi_plat_data
>>  				      *plat_data);
>>  void dw_mipi_dsi_remove(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi);
>> -int dw_mipi_dsi_bind(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi, struct drm_encoder *encoder);
>> +int dw_mipi_dsi_bind(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi,
>> +		     struct drm_encoder *encoder,
>> +		     struct drm_bridge *prev_bridge);
>>  void dw_mipi_dsi_unbind(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi);
>>  void dw_mipi_dsi_set_slave(struct dw_mipi_dsi *dsi, struct dw_mipi_dsi *slave);
>>  
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart