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From: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>,
	Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] drm/atmel-hlcdc: add support for connecting to tda998x HDMI encoder
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:02:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0155b3cc-29ce-fa43-5588-b465c6ee064a@axentia.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180418093649.2c304f29@bbrezillon>

On 2018-04-18 09:36, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:10:51 +0200
> Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> wrote:
> 
>> When the of-graph points to a tda998x-compatible HDMI encoder, register
>> as a component master and bind to the encoder/connector provided by
>> the tda998x driver.
> 
> Can't we do the opposite: make the tda998x driver expose its devices as
> drm bridges. I'd rather not add another way to connect external
> encoders (or bridges) to display controller drivers, especially since,
> when I asked DRM maintainers/devs what was the good approach to
> represent such external encoders they pointed me to the drm_bridge
> interface.

>From the cover letter:

"However, I don't know if the tilcdc driver is interfacing with the
tda998x driver in a sane and modern way"

So, which way is the future? Should bridges become components or should
existing bridge-like components no longer be components? Are there others?

Cheers,
Peter

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-18  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17 13:10 [PATCH v2 0/6] Add tda998x (HDMI) support to atmel-hlcdc Peter Rosin
2018-04-17 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] dt-bindings: display: bridge: lvds-transmitter: add ti,ds90c185 Peter Rosin
2018-04-17 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] dt-bindings: display: atmel: optional video-interface of endpoints Peter Rosin
2018-04-18  7:16   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-04-18  7:31     ` Peter Rosin
2018-04-18  8:29       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-04-17 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] drm: of: introduce drm_of_media_bus_fmt Peter Rosin
2018-04-19 16:22   ` Rob Herring
2018-04-19 16:40     ` Peter Rosin
2018-04-17 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] drm/atmel-hlcdc: support bus-width (12/16/18/24) in endpoint nodes Peter Rosin
2018-04-18  7:29   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-04-18  7:46     ` Peter Rosin
2018-04-18  8:27       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-04-17 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] drm/atmel-hlcdc: add support for connecting to tda998x HDMI encoder Peter Rosin
2018-04-18  7:36   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-04-18  8:02     ` Peter Rosin [this message]
2018-04-18  8:41       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-04-17 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] drm/atmel-hlcdc: fix broken release date Peter Rosin
2018-04-18  7:44   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-04-18  8:09     ` Peter Rosin

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