Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: dts: omap3-n900: fix LCD reset line polarity

[Tony Lindgren]

* Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> [221011 13:57]:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 02:37:26PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 08:45:54AM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > * Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> [221004 21:26]:
> > > > The LCD driver (panel-sony-acx565akm), when probing, starts with line
> > > > driven low, and then toggles it to high and keeps it there. Also, the
> > > > line is driven low when powering off the device, and ls released when
> > > > powering it back on. This means that the reset line should be described
> > > > as "active low" in DTS. This will be important when the driver is
> > > > converted to gpiod API which respects the polarity declared in DTS.
> > > 
> > > We should ensure these patches get merged together with the driver
> > > change to avoid breaking LCD for booting. Probably no need to have
> > > the driver quirk handling for inverted polartity in this case.
> > > 
> > > It's probably easiest to have an immutable branch for the driver
> > > changes I can base the dts changes on. Or I can ack the dts changes
> > > if they get merged with the driver.
> > 
> > Both drivers are already using gpiod API:
> > 
> > drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sony-acx565akm.c
> > drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-dsi-cm.c
> 
> I was looking at
> 
> drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sony-acx565akm.c
> drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c

Ah OK that explains :)

> which are not using gpiod. Should they be retired?

Yes we should just get rid of them with omapdrm working just fine.

> > So this just breaks things.
> 
> I missed the drivers in drivers/gpu/... and I see that they essentially
> abuse gpiod API as gpiod_set_value() operates on logical level
> (active/inactive) and not absolute (high/low). They should either use
> the gpiod_*_raw() variants, or they should be adjusted to do the proper
> thing together with the accompanying DTS change.
> 
> What are your preferences?

Seems like high/low at the connected device end is what we should use,
right? Otherwise things will misbehave if the panel is connected to
some other SoC possibly.

Regards,

Tony