From: ykk@rock-chips•com (Yakir Yang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 06/14] Documentation: drm/bridge: add document for analogix_dp
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:37:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DBC6C9.8030705@rock-chips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18468783.Lfl8UEMQ1s@phil>
Hi Heiko,
? 2015/8/24 21:03, Heiko Stuebner ??:
> Hi Yakir,
>
> Am Montag, 24. August 2015, 20:48:01 schrieb Yakir Yang:
>> ? 08/24/2015 12:20 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski ??:
>>> On 24.08.2015 11:42, Yakir Yang wrote:
>>>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>>>
>>>> ? 08/23/2015 07:43 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski ??:
>>>>> 2015-08-24 8:23 GMT+09:00 Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail•com>:
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Yakir Yang <ykk@rock-chips•com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Analogix dp driver is split from exynos dp driver, so we just
>>>>>>> make an copy of exynos_dp.txt, and then simplify exynos_dp.txt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Beside update some exynos dtsi file with the latest change
>>>>>>> according to the devicetree binding documents.
>>>>>> You can't just change the exynos bindings and break compatibility. Is
>>>>>> there some agreement with exynos folks to do this?
>>>>> No, there is no agreement. This wasn't even sent to Exynos maintainers.
>>>> Sorry about this one, actually I have add Exynos maintainers in version
>>>> 1 & version 2,
>>>> but lose some maintainers in version 3, I would fix it in bellow
>>>> versions.
>>>>
>>>>> Additionally the patchset did not look interesting to me because of
>>>>> misleading subject - Documentation instead of "ARM: dts:".
>>>>>
>>>>> Yakir, please:
>>>>> 1. Provide backward compatibility. Mark old properties as deprecated
>>>>> but still support them.
>>>> Do you mean that I should keep the old properties declare in
>>>> exynos-dp.txt,
>>>> but just mark them as deprecated flag.
>>> That is one of ways how to do this. However more important is that
>>> driver should still support old bindings so such code:
>>> - if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "samsung,color-space",
>>> + if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "analogix,color-space",
>>>
>>> is probably wrong. Will the driver support old DTB in the same way as it
>>> was supporting before the change?
>> Okay, I got your means. So document is not the focus, the most important
>> is that
>> driver should support the old dts prop. If so the new analogix dp driver
>> should keep
>> the "samsung,color-space", rather then just mark it with [DEPRECATED] flag.
>>
>> But from your follow suggest, I think you agree to update driver code,
>> and just mark
>> old prop with deprecated flag. If so I think such code would not be wrong
>>
>> - if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "samsung,color-space",
>> + if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "analogix,color-space",
> In a generic driver, the property should have either none, or the analogix
> prefix. But DT-properties need to be backwards compatible, meaning an older
> Exynos devicetree should run unmodified with a newer kernel.
>
> So the common course of action is to mark the old one as deprecated but still
> test for both, so something like:
>
> if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "analogix,color-space",
> &dp_video_config->color_space))
> if (of_property_read_u32(dp_node, "samsung,color-space",
> &dp_video_config->color_space)) {
>
> dev_err(dev, "failed to get color-space\n");
> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> }
>
Wow, thanks a lot for your explain and code, it do help me to understand
this suggest rightly :-)
Thanks,
- Yakir
>
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-25 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-19 14:48 [PATCH v3 0/14] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:49 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] drm: exynos/dp: fix code style Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:49 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] drm: exynos/dp: convert to drm bridge mode Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:50 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] drm: bridge/analogix_dp: dynamic parse sync_pol & interlace & colorimetry Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:50 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] drm: bridge/analogix_dp: fix link_rate & lane_count bug Yakir Yang
2015-08-20 7:22 ` Jingoo Han
2015-08-20 8:04 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:50 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] Documentation: drm/bridge: add document for analogix_dp Yakir Yang
2015-08-23 23:23 ` Rob Herring
2015-08-24 0:43 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
[not found] ` <55DA8486.1000803@rock-chips.com>
2015-08-24 4:20 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-08-24 12:48 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-24 13:03 ` Heiko Stuebner
2015-08-25 1:37 ` Yakir Yang [this message]
2015-08-24 23:49 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-08-25 1:33 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-25 1:35 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-08-24 7:40 ` Jingoo Han
2015-08-24 12:55 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-24 12:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-24 14:48 ` Rob Herring
2015-08-24 16:16 ` Heiko Stuebner
2015-08-25 1:21 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-25 9:12 ` Thierry Reding
2015-08-25 9:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-25 10:40 ` Thierry Reding
2015-08-25 10:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
[not found] ` <55DC383F.4000103@rock-chips.com>
2015-08-25 10:06 ` Thierry Reding
2015-08-25 9:15 ` Thierry Reding
2015-08-25 13:27 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <55DC7211.9080601@rock-chips.com>
2015-08-25 14:16 ` Thierry Reding
2015-08-25 9:58 ` Thierry Reding
[not found] ` <55DC75C8.209@rock-chips.com>
2015-08-25 14:21 ` Thierry Reding
2015-08-25 15:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-19 14:50 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] drm: rockchip/dp: add rockchip platform dp driver Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] phy: Add driver for rockchip Display Port PHY Yakir Yang
2015-08-20 4:40 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2015-08-19 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] drm: bridge/analogix_dp: add platform device type support Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] drm: bridge: analogix_dp: add some rk3288 special registers setting Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:51 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] drm: bridge: analogix_dp: try force hpd after plug in lookup failed Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:52 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] drm: bridge/analogix_dp: expand the delay time for hpd detect Yakir Yang
2015-08-20 6:11 ` Jingoo Han
2015-08-20 8:02 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:52 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] drm: bridge/analogix_dp: move hpd detect to connector detect function Yakir Yang
2015-08-20 7:49 ` Jingoo Han
2015-08-20 8:18 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 14:52 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] drm: bridge/analogix_dp: add edid modes parse in get_modes method Yakir Yang
2015-08-19 23:54 ` [PATCH v3 0/14] Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver Dave Airlie
2015-08-20 1:02 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-20 4:29 ` Archit Taneja
2015-08-20 5:54 ` Jingoo Han
2015-08-20 6:23 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-20 6:55 ` Jingoo Han
2015-08-20 8:03 ` Yakir Yang
2015-08-21 8:20 ` Jingoo Han
[not found] ` <55D6F6F8.70504@rock-chips.com>
[not found] ` <8384E112-E1F4-4CD3-85BF-A2A25989783F@gmail.com>
2015-08-21 13:16 ` Thierry Reding
2015-08-30 12:16 ` Romain Perier
2015-08-31 2:40 ` Yakir Yang
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