[PATCH v2 1/3] drm/panel-edp: add fat warning against adding new panel compatibles

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

Add a fat warning against adding new panel compatibles to the panel-edp
driver. All new users of the eDP panels are supposed to use the generic
"edp-panel" compatible device on the AUX bus. The remaining compatibles
are either used by the existing DT or were used previously and are
retained for backwards compatibility.

Suggested-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c
index 6db277efcbb7..95b25ec67168 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c
@@ -1776,7 +1776,23 @@ static const struct of_device_id platform_of_match[] = {
 	{
 		/* Must be first */
 		.compatible = "edp-panel",
-	}, {
+	},
+	/*
+	 * Do not add panels to the list below unless they cannot be handled by
+	 * the generic edp-panel compatible.
+	 *
+	 * The only two valid reasons are:
+	 * - because of the panel issues (e.g. broken EDID or broken
+	 *   identification),
+	 * - because the platform which uses the panel didn't wire up the AUX
+	 *   bus properly.
+	 *
+	 * In all other cases the platform should use the aux-bus and declare
+	 * the panel using the 'edp-panel' compatible as a device on the AUX
+	 * bus. The lack of the aux-bus support is not a valid case. Platforms
+	 * are urged to be converted to declaring panels in a proper way.
+	 */
+	{
 		.compatible = "auo,b101ean01",
 		.data = &auo_b101ean01,
 	}, {

-- 
2.39.2