From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] R-Car DU: Convert LVDS code to bridge driver
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:48:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2317358.st5FeEE5QH@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdWJ=5O4+FyutUdtWY+8yBwBy_fKqJ-vZGUKKUuvpeB8FQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Geert,
On Friday, 12 January 2018 11:47:03 EET Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:58 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > 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 01/10 and 02/10 define new DT bindings for the LVDS
> > encoders, and deprecate their description inside the DU bindings. To
> > retain backward compatibility with existing DT, patch 03/10 then patches
> > the device tree at runtime to convert the legacy bindings to the new ones.
>
> Looks like we will have to postpone the R-Car Gen2 Modern DT flag day
> again by a few kernel releases?
Why so ? We don't have to drop support for all legacy DT bindings at the same
time, do we ? We can switch to the new-style clock bindings on Gen2 already,
and drop the legacy LVDS bindings later.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-12 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-12 0:58 [PATCH 00/10] R-Car DU: Convert LVDS code to bridge driver Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 0:58 ` [PATCH 01/10] dt-bindings: display: renesas: Add R-Car LVDS encoder DT bindings Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 9:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <CAMuHMdWMgst-1evod+0hZujU2xPtO3UmO9c2CPPrTg=gpHpTbw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 13:36 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 10:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-01-12 13:29 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-15 6:55 ` Simon Horman
[not found] ` <20180115065528.cfelrll6dm6ggf4e-/R6kz+dDXgpPR4JQBCEnsQ@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-15 6:59 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-15 7:57 ` Simon Horman
2018-01-15 8:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-01-15 8:26 ` Laurent Pinchart
[not found] ` <20180112005858.26472-2-laurent.pinchart+renesas-ryLnwIuWjnjg/C1BVhZhaw@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 12:59 ` Biju Das
2018-01-12 13:26 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 14:00 ` Fabrizio Castro
2018-01-12 14:25 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 15:13 ` Sergei Shtylyov
[not found] ` <81a9462b-6aaa-52c7-f741-e504c14838e9-M4DtvfQ/ZS1MRgGoP+s0PdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 20:34 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 0:58 ` [PATCH 02/10] dt-bindings: display: renesas: Deprecate LVDS support in the DU bindings Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 9:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <CAMuHMdXYJmh8ssSRt8u75fTv5gyrpcoPKAuCT=BaF1Eu27CaiQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 10:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-19 21:23 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <20180112005858.26472-3-laurent.pinchart+renesas-ryLnwIuWjnjg/C1BVhZhaw@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 9:54 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2018-01-12 10:43 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 14:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2018-01-12 15:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2018-01-12 16:46 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-19 21:24 ` Rob Herring
2018-01-12 0:58 ` [PATCH 03/10] drm: rcar-du: Fix legacy DT to create LVDS encoder nodes Laurent Pinchart
[not found] ` <20180112005858.26472-4-laurent.pinchart+renesas-ryLnwIuWjnjg/C1BVhZhaw@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 10:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <CAMuHMdW5wDj5gyTnh+Xa3J10b_6For0MdhcTFgdU_+sgx=BYmA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-12 13:53 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-12 9:47 ` [PATCH 00/10] R-Car DU: Convert LVDS code to bridge driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-01-12 13:48 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2018-01-15 6:57 ` Simon Horman
2018-01-15 7:00 ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-01-15 7:58 ` Simon Horman
[not found] ` <20180112005858.26472-1-laurent.pinchart+renesas-ryLnwIuWjnjg/C1BVhZhaw@public.gmane.org>
2018-01-15 6:59 ` Simon Horman
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