Re: [PATCH 1/2] regmap: Add DSI bus support

[Rob Clark]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 6:11 AM Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 06.07.2019 03:06, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 02:45:12PM -0700, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> >> Add basic support with a simple implementation that utilizes the generic
> >> read/write commands to allow device registers to be configured.
> > This looks good to me but I really don't know anything about DSI,
> > I'd appreciate some review from other people who do.  I take it
> > there's some spec thing in DSI that says registers and bytes must
> > both be 8 bit?
>
>
> I am little bit confused about regmap usage here. On the one hand it
> nicely fits to this specific driver, probably because it already uses
> regmap_i2c.
>
> On the other it will be unusable for almost all current DSI drivers and
> probably for most new drivers. Why?
>
> 1. DSI protocol defines actually more than 30 types of transactions[1],
> but this patchset implements only few of them (dsi generic write/read
> family). Is it possible to implement multiple types of transactions in
> regmap?
>
> 2. There is already some set of helpers which uses dsi bus, rewriting it
> on regmap is possible or driver could use of regmap and direct access
> together, the question is if it is really necessary.
>
> 3. DSI devices are no MFDs so regmap abstraction has no big value added
> (correct me, if there are other significant benefits).
>

I assume it is not *just* this one bridge that can be programmed over
either i2c or dsi, depending on how things are wired up on the board.
It certainly would be nice for regmap to support this case, so we
don't have to write two different bridge drivers for the same bridge.
I wouldn't expect a panel that is only programmed via dsi to use this.

BR,
-R

>
> [1]:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/video/mipi_display.h#L15
>
>
> Regards
>
> Andrzej
>
>
> >
> > A couple of minor comments, no need to resend just for these:
> >
> >> +       payload[0] = (char)reg;
> >> +       payload[1] = (char)val;
> > Do you need the casts?
> >
> >> +    ret = mipi_dsi_generic_write(dsi, payload, 2);
> >> +    return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
> > Please just write an if statement, it helps with legibility.
> >
> >> +struct regmap *__regmap_init_dsi(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi,
> >> +                             const struct regmap_config *config,
> >> +                             struct lock_class_key *lock_key,
> >> +                             const char *lock_name)
> >> +{
> >> +    return __regmap_init(&dsi->dev, &dsi_bus, &dsi->dev, config,
> >> +                         lock_key, lock_name);
> >> +}
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__regmap_init_dsi);
> > Perhaps validate that the config is OK (mainly the register/value
> > sizes)?  Though I'm not sure it's worth it so perhaps not - up to
> > you.
>
>