From: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin•com>
To: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux•intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel•org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse•de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail•com>,
Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll•ch>,
Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel•com>,
Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro•org>,
Robert Foss <rfoss@kernel•org>,
Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard•com>,
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Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail•com>,
Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung•com>,
Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions•com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung•com>,
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Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp•com>,
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Cc: Hui Pu <Hui.Pu@gehealthcare•com>,
Ian Ray <ian.ray@gehealthcare•com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin•com>,
dri-devel@lists•freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
imx@lists•linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin•com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: use a drm_bridge_connector internally, not a drm_connector
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 12:37:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260519-drm-bridge-hotplug-v1-6-45e2bdb3dfb4@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260519-drm-bridge-hotplug-v1-0-45e2bdb3dfb4@bootlin.com>
Currently drm_bridge_connector_init() always returns the added connector or
errors out. When adding bridge hotplug the bridge-connector can be
successfully initialized without creating a connector, which can be added
later when the pipeline will be complete.
For this the internal function drm_bridge_connector_add_connector() must be
able to return a valid drm_bridge_connector even without any drm_connector.
In preparation to support bridge hotplug, change its return value to be the
same drm_bridge_connector pointer it gets as input, or a PTR_ERR.
No functional changes, just changing an internal API.
Note the return value could now become an int (0 or negative error) because
returning the same value received as input does not carry any added
value. However this would be change a lot of lines, so leave such change as
a future cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin•com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c
index 6813c6008985..eb1912611cd6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_bridge_connector.c
@@ -780,10 +780,10 @@ static void drm_bridge_connector_put_bridges(struct drm_device *dev, void *data)
* @bridge_connector->drm and @bridge_connector->encoder fields are
* assigned at least)
*
- * Returns a pointer to the new drm_connector on success, or a negative
- * error pointer otherwise.
+ * Returns a pointer to @bridge_connector on success, or a negative error
+ * pointer otherwise.
*/
-static struct drm_connector *
+static struct drm_bridge_connector *
drm_bridge_connector_add_connector(struct drm_bridge_connector *bridge_connector)
{
struct drm_connector *connector;
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ drm_bridge_connector_add_connector(struct drm_bridge_connector *bridge_connector
if (ret)
return ERR_PTR(ret);
- return connector;
+ return bridge_connector;
}
/**
@@ -1086,6 +1086,10 @@ struct drm_connector *drm_bridge_connector_init(struct drm_device *drm,
bridge_connector->drm = drm;
bridge_connector->encoder = encoder;
- return drm_bridge_connector_add_connector(bridge_connector);
+ bridge_connector = drm_bridge_connector_add_connector(bridge_connector);
+ if (IS_ERR(bridge_connector))
+ return ERR_CAST(bridge_connector);
+
+ return &bridge_connector->base;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_bridge_connector_init);
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-19 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-19 10:37 [PATCH 00/37] drm bridge hotplug Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 01/37] drm/connector: split drmm_connector_hdmi_init() in 3 parts Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 02/37] drm/connector: add drm_connector_hdmi_dynamic_init() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 03/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: rename variable for consistency Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 04/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: store the drm_device pointer Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 05/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: split code creating the connector to a subfunction Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` Luca Ceresoli [this message]
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 07/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: extract drm_bridge_connector_get_bridges() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 08/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: return int from drm_bridge_connector_get_bridges() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 09/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: extract drm_bridge_connector_init_hdmi_audio_cec() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 10/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: return int from drm_bridge_connector_init_hdmi_audio_cec() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 11/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: return int from drm_bridge_connector_add_connector() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 12/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: hoist error management to common code Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 13/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: move drm_bridge_connector_put_bridges() definition eariler Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 14/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: add non-drmm variant of drm_bridge_connector_put_bridges() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 15/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: allocate the connector dynamically Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 16/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: move per-connector fields to the dynamic connector Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 17/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: protect dynconn creation and destruction with a mutex Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 18/37] drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: remove the panel_bridge on host_detach Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 19/37] drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: move drm_bridge_add() call to probe Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 20/37] drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: attach: return -EPROBE_DEFER is next bridge not yet available Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 21/37] drm/bridge: initialize chain_node list head on allocation Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 22/37] drm/bridge: initialize chain_node list head on detach and attach errors Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 23/37] drm/encoder: add drm_encoder_cleanup_from() Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 24/37] drm/atomic: move drm_atomic_helper_disable_all() and drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() from drm_atomic_helper to drm_atomic Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 25/37] drm/bridge: shutdown and cleanup on bridge unplug Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 26/37] drm: event-notifier: add mechanism to notify about hotplug events Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 27/37] drm/bridge: notify about detached bridges Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 28/37] drm/mipi-dsi: turn DRM_MIPI_DSI into a tristate Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 29/37] drm/mipi-dsi: notify about DSI attach Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 30/37] drm/bridge: add drm_bridge_is_tail() to know whether a bridge completes the pipeline Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 31/37] drm/bridge: panel: implement .is_tail Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 15:12 ` Neil Armstrong
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 32/37] drm/bridge: display-connector: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 33/37] drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 34/37] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi83: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 35/37] drm/bridge: drm_bridge_attach(): don't fail on -EPROBE_DEFER Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 36/37] drm/display: bridge-connector: handle bridge hotplug Luca Ceresoli
2026-05-19 10:37 ` [PATCH 37/37] drm/mxsfb/lcdif: enable " Luca Ceresoli
2026-06-01 15:44 ` [PATCH 00/37] drm " Luca Ceresoli
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