Re: [PATCH 8/8] drm/bridge: it66121: Allow link this driver as a lib

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Fri Nov 24 2023 - 02:38:26 EST


On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 01:52:26AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> On 2023/11/23 16:08, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > I'm agree with the idea that drm bridges drivers involved toward to a direction
> > > that support more complex design, but I think we should also leave a way for the
> > > most frequent use case. Make it straight-forward as a canonical design.
> > Not having anything connector-related in the drm_bridge driver is a
> > canonical design.
>
> What you said is just for the more complex uses case. I can't agree, sorry.
>
> By choosing the word "canonical design", I means that the most frequently used
> cases in practice are the canonical design, 95+% motherboards I have seen has
> only one *onboard* display bridges chip. For my driver, I abstract the internal
> (inside of the chip) encoder as drm_encoder and abstract the external TX chip as
> drm_bridge, this design still works very well.
>
>
> Originally, I means that this is a concept of the hardware design.
> You are wrong even through in the software design context, the
> transparent simple drm bridge drivers(simple-bridge.c) also *allow*
> to create drm connector manually. I don't think I need to emulate
> more example, please read the code by youself.

Ok. That's it. We've been patient long enough. You have been given a
review and a list of things to fix for your driver to be merged. Whether
you follow them or not is your decision.

We won't tolerate insulting comments though.

Maxime

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