Re: [PATCH] drm: tda998x: mali-dp: hdlcd: refactor connector registration

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:25:52AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Hm, I entirely missed that part of the troubles. Anyway, if you all agree
> on a patch I certainly won't block it, feel free to merge through suitable
> trees (or I can smash it into drm-misc if that's wanted).

I think those who are interested in seeing the drm_connector_register()
call disappear from tda998x only care about that happening, but not how
it happens.

We have agreement between myself, Brian and Liviu on this approach, and
I think everyone else is waiting for me to push out the commit so it can
be used as the basis for their work.  I think everyone else is waiting
for me to push something out which gets us past this log-jam.

I don't understand the connectivity between drm-misc and David's drm
tree - so I'm going to let you make the decision on whether to merge
this into drm-misc.  I normally send my pull requests for Armada and
TDA998x changes to David, which means when I send my other TDA998x
changes, the mali/tda998x commit will be included in that pull
request too.  So I'm wondering whether it would make more sense for
me to send it to David instead, or whether I need to send my other
changes through drm-misc instead.  I find the whole drm vs drm-misc
thing rather confusing.

I think we should get this accepted into drm trees before anyone bases
their work on this commit (which is why I've been holding off during
the last week, waiting for DRM folk to get back from Santa Fe and
readjust to the higher atmospheric pressure!)

Anyway, here is my pull request for the mali/hdlcd/tda998x commit which
I'd normally send to David - I don't mind which tree it goes into as
long as things work out nicely.

8<===

David,

Please incorporate the latest TDA998x I2C driver (drm-tda998x-mali
branch), which can be found at:

  git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm.git drm-tda998x-mali

with SHA1 90731c24d2db7ec04df43ddbcee9605183d05187.

This change removes the call to drm_connector_register() which has been
blocking the proper de-midlayer conversion of other DRM drivers.
Unfortunately, hdlcd and mali have intimate dependencies on this change,
which is why these drivers need to be fixed up in the same commit - they
can't be separate commits without these drivers breaking.  All other
DRM drivers which make use of tda998x (to my knowledge - armada, tilcdc)
cope with this change.

This will update the following files:

 drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c   | 19 +++++++++++--------
 drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c  | 18 +++++++++++-------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c |  8 --------
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

through these changes:

Brian Starkey (1):
      drm/i2c: tda998x: mali-dp: hdlcd: refactor connector registration

Many thanks.

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