Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/drv: stop mentioning deprecated drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge() in docs

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 04:29:53PM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge() is deprecated. Update the "component helper
> usage recommendations" docs by mentioning the currently recommended API.
> 
> Also stop mentioning drm_panel because now every drm_panel embeds a
> drm_bridge and the drm_bridge API is recommended to access panels too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> index 0cdc606af8d1..3f1b7faf5bef 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
> @@ -695,10 +695,10 @@ static void drm_fs_inode_free(struct inode *inode)
>   *
>   *  - The component helper fills the niche where further standardization of
>   *    interfaces is not practical. When there already is, or will be, a
> - *    standardized interface like &drm_bridge or &drm_panel, providing its own
> - *    functions to find such components at driver load time, like
> - *    drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge(), then the component helper should not be
> - *    used.
> + *    standardized interface like &drm_bridge providing its own functions
> + *    to find such components at driver load time, like
> + *    of_drm_get_bridge_by_endpoint() and of_drm_find_and_get_bridge(),
> + *    then the component helper should not be used.
>   */
>  
>  static void drm_dev_init_release(struct drm_device *dev, void *res)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart