Re: [PATCH v5 08/44] drm/connector: hdmi: Add Broadcast RGB property

From: Dave Stevenson
Date: Fri Jan 12 2024 - 11:00:09 EST


Hi Maxime

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 13:59, Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 02:43:37PM +0000, Dave Stevenson wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 15:50, Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The i915 driver has a property to force the RGB range of an HDMI output.
> > > The vc4 driver then implemented the same property with the same
> > > semantics. KWin has support for it, and a PR for mutter is also there to
> > > support it.
> > >
> > > Both drivers implementing the same property with the same semantics,
> > > plus the userspace having support for it, is proof enough that it's
> > > pretty much a de-facto standard now and we can provide helpers for it.
> > >
> > > Let's plumb it into the newly created HDMI connector.
> >
> > To have such a significant proportion of the patch being kunit tests
> > when there was no reference to such in the commit text was slightly
> > unexpected.
>
> Thanks for your review. Does that mean that you would prefer the tests
> to be in a separate patch?

If there was a need for a respin, then I think ideally yes, or at
least a mention in the commit text ("Let's plumb it into the newly
created HDMI connector*, and add appropriate unit tests*").
Overall I'm not that fussed though.

Dave