Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 07/15] drm/sun4i: dw-hdmi: Make HDMI PHY into a platform device

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:26:16AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:50 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 9bf3797796f570b34438235a6a537df85832bdad ]
> >
> > On sunxi boards that use HDMI output, HDMI device probe keeps being
> > avoided indefinitely with these repeated messages in dmesg:
> >
> >   platform 1ee0000.hdmi: probe deferral - supplier 1ef0000.hdmi-phy
> >     not ready
> >
> > There's a fwnode_link being created with fw_devlink=on between hdmi
> > and hdmi-phy nodes, because both nodes have 'compatible' property set.
> >
> > Fw_devlink code assumes that nodes that have compatible property
> > set will also have a device associated with them by some driver
> > eventually. This is not the case with the current sun8i-hdmi
> > driver.
>
> fw_devlink isn't present in 5.4 or earlier. So technically this patch
> isn't needed.

I'll drop it from <=5.4, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha