Re: [PATCH v3 21/32] drm/exynos: Move dp driver from video/ to drm/

[Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>]

On Friday, November 01, 2013 8:12 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On Friday 01 of November 2013 08:06:00 Jingoo Han wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 31, 2013 7:47 PM, Inki Dae wrote:
> > > CCing Jingoo,
> > >
> > > Is that ok to remove eDP driver from video/exynos? Isn't this driver
> > > really used by Linux framebuffer driver, s3c-fb.c?
> >
> > +cc Tomi Valkeinen, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
> >      linux-fbdev list, linux-samsung-soc list
> >
> > Yes, it is used by s3c-fb.c.
> >
> > > Of course, now s3c-fb driver is dead code because this driver doesn't
> > > support device tree yet but we would need more reviews and discussions
> > > about moving this driver into drm side. Let's watch new rules for
> > > device tree bindings of DRM world. So I'd not like to merge this
> > > driver yet.
> > 's3c-fb' driver is still used for other mass products projects.
> > Just, device tree support patch is not yet submitted.
> 
> Current in-tree users of s3c-fb drivers are s3c2443, non-DT s3c64xx and
> all s5p* SoCs. It is not used on Exynos SoCs anymore.

Hi Tomasz Figa,

Some mass product projects using Exynos5250 and etc, use s3c-fb driver
and dp driver. Also, these projects are still using Framebuffer, not DRM.

> 
> As for Exynos DP driver, what SoCs does it support? If only Exynos (as the
> name suggests) then there is no point in keeping it at video/exynos and
> making it a part of Exynos DRM driver seems reasonable to me.

However, when considering only mainline kernel, I have no strong objection.
As you know, many Linux kernel based OS projects using Exynos, are using
DRM, not Framebuffer.

Also, if moving DP driver to DRM, MAINTAINERS entry for Exynos DP driver
should be updated, too.

Best regards,
Jingoo Han