Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] drm/panel-edp: Debugfs for panel-edp

[Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 4:14 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> The main goal of this series is the final patch in the series: to
> allow test code to reliably find out if we ended up hitting the
> "fallback" case of the generic edp-panel driver where we don't
> recognize a panel and choose to use super conservative timing.
>
> Version 1 of the patch actually landed but was quickly reverted since
> it was pointed out that it should have been done in debugfs, not
> sysfs.
>
> As discussed on IRC [1], we want this support to be under the
> "connector" directory of debugfs but there was no existing way to do
> that. Thus patch #2 in the series was born to try to plumb this
> through. It was asserted that it would be OK to rely on a fairly
> modern display pipeline for this plumbing and perhaps fail to populate
> the debugfs file if we're using older/deprecated pipelines.
>
> Patch #1 in the series was born because the bridge chip I was using
> was still using an older/deprecated pipeline. While this doesn't get
> us fully to a modern pipeline for ti-sn65dsi86 (it still doesn't move
> to "NO_CONNECTOR") it hopefully moves us in the right direction.
>
> This was tested on sc7180-trogdor devices with _both_ the ti-sn65dsi86
> and the parade-ps8640 bridge chips (since some devices have one, some
> the other). The parade-ps8640 already uses supports "NO_CONNECTOR",
> luckily.
>
> [1] https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=dri-devel&date=2022-02-02
>
> Changes in v2:
> - ("ti-sn65dsi86: Use drm_bridge_connector") new for v2.
> - ("drm: Plumb debugfs_init through to panels") new for v2.
> - Now using debugfs, not sysfs
>
> Douglas Anderson (3):
>   drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Use drm_bridge_connector
>   drm: Plumb debugfs_init through to panels
>   drm/panel-edp: Allow querying the detected panel via debugfs
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/panel.c         | 12 +++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c  | 72 +++++---------------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge_connector.c | 15 ++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c          |  3 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c      | 37 +++++++++++--
>  include/drm/drm_bridge.h               |  7 +++
>  include/drm/drm_connector.h            |  7 +++
>  include/drm/drm_panel.h                |  8 +++
>  8 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

Landed these three patches to drm-misc-next w/ accumulated tags:

$ git log --oneline -3
6ed19359d6bd drm/panel-edp: Allow querying the detected panel via debugfs
2509969a9862 drm: Plumb debugfs_init through to panels
e283820cbf80 drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Use drm_bridge_connector

If it turns out that we want to add more reporting when debugfs calls
return errors then I'm happy to submit follow-on patches. Discussion
about that can be found in:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAD=FV=Ut3N9syXbN7i939mNsx3h7-u9cU9j6=XFkz9vrh0Vseg@mail.gmail.com

Unless something changes, though, my current plan is not to do
follow-up patches and leave this as-is without any extra error
reporting.

-Doug