Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] drm/mipi-dsi: Reduce bloat and add funcs for cleaner init seqs

From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	lvzhaoxiong@huaqin.corp-partner.google.com,
	Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@google.com>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>,
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
	Joel Selvaraj <jo@jsfamily.in>,
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>,
	Cong Yang <yangcong5@huaqin.corp-partner.google.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	Jessica Zhang <quic_jesszhan@quicinc.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] drm/mipi-dsi: Reduce bloat and add funcs for cleaner init seqs
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:20:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzkg4jb3.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240426235857.3870424-1-dianders@chromium.org>

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> The consensus of many DRM folks is that we want to move away from DSI
> drivers defining tables of init commands. Instead, we want to move to
> init functions that can use common DRM functions. The issue thus far
> has been that using the macros mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq() and
> mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq() bloats the driver using them.
>
> While trying to solve bloat, we realized that the majority of the it
> was easy to solve. This series solves the bloat for existing drivers
> by moving the printout outside of the macro.
>
> During discussion of my v1 patch to fix the bloat [1], we also decided
> that we really want to change the way that drivers deal with init
> sequences to make it clearer. In addition to being cleaner, a side
> effect of moving drivers to the new style reduces bloat _even more_.
>
> This series also contains a few minor fixes / cleanups that I found
> along the way.

FWIW, I like the general approach taken here. Thanks!

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel