Re: [RFC,3/3] drm/komeda: Allow non-component drm_bridge only endpoints

[james qian wang (Arm Technology China)]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:20:56AM +0000, Brian Starkey wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 03:07:59AM +0000, james qian wang (Arm Technology China) wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:22:07PM +0000, Brian Starkey wrote:
> > > 
> > > If James is strongly against merging this, maybe we just swap
> > > wholesale to bridge? But for me, the pragmatic approach would be this
> > > stop-gap.
> > >
> > 
> > This is a good idea, and I vote +ULONG_MAX :)
> > 
> > and I also checked tda998x driver, it supports bridge. so swap the
> > wholesale to brige is perfect. :)
> > 
> 
> Well, as Mihail wrote, it's definitely not perfect.
> 
> Today, if you rmmod tda998x with the DPU driver still loaded,
> everything will be unbound gracefully.
> 
> If we swap to bridge, then rmmod'ing tda998x (or any other bridge
> driver the DPU is using) with the DPU driver still loaded will result
> in a crash.

I haven't read the bridge code, but seems this is a bug of drm_bridge,
since if the bridge is still in using by others, the rmmod should fail

And personally opinion, if the bridge doesn't handle the dependence.
for us:

- add such support to bridge
  or
- just do the insmod/rmmod in correct order.

> So, there really are proper benefits to sticking with the component
> code for tda998x, which is why I'd like to understand why you're so
> against this patch?
>

This change handles two different connectors in komeda internally, compare
with one interface, it increases the complexity, more risk of bug and more
cost of maintainance.

So my suggestion is keeping on one single interface in komeda, no
matter it is bridge or component, but I'd like it only one, but not
them both in komeda.

Thanks
James

> Thanks,
> -Brian