Re: [01/30] drm: Introduce drm_bridge_init()

[james qian wang (Arm Technology China)]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 09:49:35AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 05:55:06AM +0000, james qian wang (Arm Technology China) wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 01:15:59PM +0000, Mihail Atanassov wrote:
> > > A simple convenience function to initialize the struct drm_bridge.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mihail Atanassov <mihail.atanassov@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  include/drm/drm_bridge.h     |  4 ++++
> > >  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
> > > index cba537c99e43..cbe680aa6eac 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
> > > @@ -89,6 +89,35 @@ void drm_bridge_remove(struct drm_bridge *bridge)
> > >  }
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_bridge_remove);
> > >
> > > +/**
> > > + * drm_bridge_init - initialise a drm_bridge structure
> > > + *
> > > + * @bridge: bridge control structure
> > > + * @funcs: control functions
> > > + * @dev: device
> > > + * @timings: timing specification for the bridge; optional (may be NULL)
> > > + * @driver_private: pointer to the bridge driver internal context (may be NULL)
> > > + */
> > > +void drm_bridge_init(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct device *dev,
> > > +              const struct drm_bridge_funcs *funcs,
> > > +              const struct drm_bridge_timings *timings,
> > > +              void *driver_private)
> > > +{
> > > + WARN_ON(!funcs);
> > > +
> > > + bridge->dev = NULL;
> > > + bridge->encoder = NULL;
> > > + bridge->next = NULL;
> > > +
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> > > + bridge->of_node = dev->of_node;
> > > +#endif
> > > + bridge->timings = timings;
> > > + bridge->funcs = funcs;
> > > + bridge->driver_private = driver_private;
> >
> > Can we directly put drm_bridge_add() here. then
> > - User always need to call bridge_init and add together.
> > - Consistent with others like drm_plane/crtc_init which directly has
> >   drm_mode_object_add() in it.
>
> Uh no, the trouble here is that drm_bridge_add should actually be called
> _register, because it publishes the bridge to the world. I think we even
> have a todo item to rename _add to _register ... Once that's done the
> bridge can't be changed anymore, all init code must have completed. So
> often you need a bit of code between _init() and _register().
>
> drm_mode_object_add is different since for mode objects it doesn't publish
> it to the world, that's done with drm_dev_register and
> drm_connector_register. drm_mode_object_add just does a bit of internal
> house keeping.
> -Daniel
>

Yes, the name _register() is more better.

And thank you for such detailed explanation.

Thanks
James

> >
> > James.
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_bridge_init);
> > > +
> > >  /**
> > >   * drm_bridge_attach - attach the bridge to an encoder's chain
> > >   *
> > > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_bridge.h b/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
> > > index c0a2286a81e9..d6d9d5301551 100644
> > > --- a/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
> > > +++ b/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
> > > @@ -402,6 +402,10 @@ struct drm_bridge {
> > >
> > >  void drm_bridge_add(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
> > >  void drm_bridge_remove(struct drm_bridge *bridge);
> > > +void drm_bridge_init(struct drm_bridge *bridge, struct device *dev,
> > > +              const struct drm_bridge_funcs *funcs,
> > > +              const struct drm_bridge_timings *timings,
> > > +              void *driver_private);
> > >  struct drm_bridge *of_drm_find_bridge(struct device_node *np);
> > >  int drm_bridge_attach(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_bridge *bridge,
> > >                 struct drm_bridge *previous);
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> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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