Archit Taneja writes: > On 07/15/2017 04:28 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: >> Archit Taneja writes: >> >>> On 06/28/2017 01:28 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: >>>> When a mipi_dsi_host is registered, the DT is walked to find any child >>>> nodes with compatible strings. Those get registered as DSI devices, >>>> and most DSI panel drivers are mipi_dsi_drivers that attach to those nodes. >>>> >>>> There is one special case currently, the adv7533 bridge, where the >>>> bridge probes on I2C, and during the bridge attach step it looks up >>>> the mipi_dsi_host and registers the mipi_dsi_device (for its own stub >>>> mipi_dsi_driver). >>>> >>>> For the Raspberry Pi panel, though, we also need to attach on I2C (our >>>> control bus), but don't have a bridge driver. The lack of a bridge's >>>> attach() step like adv7533 uses means that we aren't able to delay the >>>> mipi_dsi_device creation until the mipi_dsi_host is present. >>>> >>>> To fix this, we extend mipi_dsi_device_register_full() to allow being >>>> called with a NULL host, which puts the device on a queue waiting for >>>> a host to appear. When a new host is registered, we fill in the host >>>> value and finish the device creation process. >>> >>> This is quite a nice idea. The only bothering thing is the info.of_node usage >>> varies between child nodes (mipi_dsi_devs) and non-child nodes (i2c control >>> bus). >>> >>> For DSI children expressed in DT, the of_node in info holds the DT node >>> corresponding to the DSI child itself. For non-DT ones, this patch assumes >>> that info.of_node stores the DSI host DT node. I think it should be okay as >>> long as we mention the usage in a comment somewhere. The other option is to >>> have a new info.host_node field to keep a track of the host DT node. >> >> I think maybe you misread the patch? We're using >> of_get_parent(dsi->dev.node), which came from info->node, to compare to >> host->dev->of_node(). > > I think I did misread it. > > Although, I'm not entirely clear what we should be setting info.node to. > In patch #8, info.node is set by: > > endpoint = of_graph_get_next_endpoint(dev->of_node, NULL); > info.node = of_graph_get_remote_port(endpoint); > > Looking at the dt bindings in patch #7, it looks like info.node is set > to the 'port' device node in dsi@7e700000, is that right? Yeah. > I suppose 'port' here seems like a reasonable representation of > dsi->dev.node, I wonder how it would work if the dsi host had multiple > ports underneath it. I.e: > > dsi@7e700000 { > ... > ... > ports { > port@0 { > ... > dsi_out_port: endpoint { > remote-endpoint = <&panel_dsi_port>; > }; > }; > port@1 { > ... > ... > }; > }; > }; > > Here, we would need to set info.node to the 'ports' node, so that > of_get_parent(dsi->dev.of_node) equals host->dev->of_node. That doesn't > seem correct. > > Ideally, a dev's 'of_node' should be left to NULL if we don't have a > corresponding OF node. We're sort of overriding it here since we don't > have any other place to store this information in the mipi_dsi_device > struct. > > Maybe we could add a 'host_node' entry in mipi_dsi_device itself, which > is exclusively used cases where the DSI device doesn't have a DT node. > Our check in mipi_dsi_host_register() could then be something like: I think instead of extending the struct, we can just walk to the parent similarly to how of_graph_get_remove_port_parent() does. And fix some node refcounting at the same time: diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c index ed3d505dc203..77d439254da6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c @@ -313,7 +313,12 @@ int mipi_dsi_host_register(struct mipi_dsi_host *host) * connect our host to it and probe them now. */ list_for_each_entry_safe(dsi, temp, &unattached_device_list, list) { - if (of_get_parent(dsi->dev.of_node) == host->dev->of_node) { + struct device_node *host_node = of_get_parent(dsi->dev.of_node); + + if (!of_node_cmp(host_node->name, "ports")) + host_node = of_get_next_parent(host_node); + + if (host_node == host->dev->of_node) { dsi->host = host; dsi->dev.parent = host->dev; device_initialize(&dsi->dev); @@ -321,6 +326,8 @@ int mipi_dsi_host_register(struct mipi_dsi_host *host) mipi_dsi_device_add(dsi); list_del_init(&dsi->list); } + + of_node_put(host_node); } mutex_unlock(&host_lock);