Re: [v10,20/27] drm/connector: hdmi: Add Infoframes generation

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 11:22:14AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Sui Jingfeng <sui.jingfeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2024/3/21 23:29, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> >> Infoframes in KMS is usually handled by a bunch of low-level helpers
>> >> that require quite some boilerplate for drivers. This leads to
>> >> discrepancies with how drivers generate them, and which are actually
>> >> sent.
>> >>
>> >> Now that we have everything needed to generate them in the HDMI
>> >> connector state, we can generate them in our common logic so that
>> >> drivers can simply reuse what we precomputed.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig                            |   1 +
>> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.c          | 338 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c                    |  14 +
>> >>   .../gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_helper_test.c   |   1 +
>> >>   drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_connector_test.c         |  12 +
>> >>   include/drm/drm_atomic_state_helper.h              |   8 +
>> >>   include/drm/drm_connector.h                        | 109 +++++++
>> >>   7 files changed, 483 insertions(+)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>> >> index 16029435b750..3d3193c7aa5f 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>> >> @@ -97,10 +97,11 @@ config DRM_KUNIT_TEST
>> >>   	  If in doubt, say "N".
>> >>   
>> >>   config DRM_KMS_HELPER
>> >>   	tristate
>> >>   	depends on DRM
>> >> +	select DRM_DISPLAY_HDMI_HELPER
>> >
>> > Should we select DRM_DISPLAY_HELPER here? Otherwise there will have some compile error
>> > emerged with default config.
>> 
>> Can we stop abusing select instead of adding more selects to paper over
>> the issues?
>> 
>> Use select only for non-visible symbols (no prompts anywhere) and for
>> symbols with no dependencies.
>
> I don't really have an opinion there, but it looks like all the other
> helpers Kconfig symbols are using select everywhere, and I don't really
> see how we could turn them into visible symbols with depends on without
> breaking a number of defconfig.
>
> Could you expand a bit what you have in mind here?

Just my standard grumbling about the rampant select abuse.

Maybe one day someone takes the hint and starts fixing things up. :p

See the note under "reverse dependencies" at [1].


BR,
Jani.


[1] https://docs.kernel.org/kbuild/kconfig-language.html#menu-attributes


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Jani Nikula, Intel