Subject: [PATCH v7 1/2] video: support MIPI-DSI controller driver

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Morton)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:51:21 -0800

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:08:07 +0530
Archit <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 January 2012 10:58 AM, Donghwa Lee wrote:
> > Samsung S5PC210 and EXYNOS SoC platform has MIPI-DSI controller and MIPI-DSI
> > based LCD Panel could be used with it. This patch supports MIPI-DSI driver
> > based Samsung SoC chip.
> > 
> > LCD panel driver based MIPI-DSI should be registered to MIPI-DSI driver at
> > machine code and LCD panel driver specific function registered to mipi_dsim_ddi
> > structure at lcd panel init function called system init.
> > In the MIPI-DSI driver, find lcd panel driver by using registered
> > lcd panel name, and then initialize lcd panel driver.
> > 
> > Changes since v6:
> > 	- remove obscure compile problems.
> > 	- remove useless codes.
> > 	- modify return errno codes properly
> 
> One more comment about 'mipi_dsim.h', it would be better to put it in
> include/video and not 'include/linux'.

Yes, that is desirable.

> > ---
> >   drivers/video/Kconfig                 |    6 +
> >   drivers/video/Makefile                |    2 +
> >   drivers/video/s5p_mipi_dsi.c          |  599 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/video/s5p_mipi_dsi_common.c   |  896 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/video/s5p_mipi_dsi_common.h   |   46 ++
> >   drivers/video/s5p_mipi_dsi_lowlevel.c |  617 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/video/s5p_mipi_dsi_lowlevel.h |  112 ++++
> >   drivers/video/s5p_mipi_dsi_regs.h     |  149 ++++++
> >   include/linux/mipi_dsim.h             |  359 +++++++++++++
> >   9 files changed, 2786 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

or we could put it in drivers/video/.  It all depends on which other
drivers we expect will need access to this header.