Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] drm/panel: Check for already prepared/enabled in drm_panel

[Chris Morgan <macroalpha82@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 07:03:07PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 11:33:22AM -0500, Chris Morgan wrote:
> > In my case a few different panel drivers disable the regulators in the
> > unprepare/disable routines.
> 
> And that's totally fine.
> 
> > For at least the Rockchip DSI implementations for some reason the
> > panel gets unprepared more than once, which triggers an unbalanced
> > regulator disable.
> 
> "For some reason" being that DW-DSI apparently finds it ok to bypass any
> kind of abstraction and randomly calling panel functions by itself:
> 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.4.7/source/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c#L868
> 
> It looks like it's fixed it current drm-misc-next though.

Good, when I get a chance I will test it out with the existing panels
I have at my disposal and submit some patches to clean them up.

> 
> > Obviously though the correct course of action is to fix the reason why
> > the panel is disabled more than once, but that's at least the root
> > cause of this behavior on the few panels I've worked with.
> 
> Like I said we already have a commit on the way to fix that, so it
> shouldn't be an issue anymore.
> 
> I stand by what I was saying earlier though, I think it's mostly
> cargo-cult or drivers being very wrong. If anything, the DW-DSI stuff
> made me even more convinced that we shouldn't even entertain that idea
> :)
> 
> Maxime

Thank you, and yes if a driver is doing something it shouldn't we
shouldn't be patching around that, we should be fixing things. Thanks
for providing me with the additional info.

Chris