Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752316AbdGFLqJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2017 07:46:09 -0400 Received: from pandora.armlinux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:42544 "EHLO pandora.armlinux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752045AbdGFLqI (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2017 07:46:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 12:45:55 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Neil Armstrong Cc: architt@codeaurora.org, a.hajda@samsung.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: dw_hdmi: add cec notifier support Message-ID: <20170706114555.GK4902@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <1499337186-24429-1-git-send-email-narmstrong@baylibre.com> <20170706110553.GJ4902@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <185aa90b-a1b2-d899-40bb-7d333f584bb5@baylibre.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <185aa90b-a1b2-d899-40bb-7d333f584bb5@baylibre.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3597 Lines: 85 On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 01:29:54PM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote: > On 07/06/2017 01:05 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:33:06PM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote: > >> From: Russell King > >> > >> Add CEC notifier support to the HDMI bridge driver, so that the CEC > >> part of the IP can receive its physical address. > >> > >> Tested-by: Neil Armstrong > >> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong > >> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil > >> Signed-off-by: Russell King > >> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong > >> --- > >> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > >> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) > >> > >> Hi Archit, Hans, > >> > >> This is repost of Russell's patch from his dw-hdmi CEC patchset. > >> > >> Since his CEC implementation will be integrated in the bridge driver, > >> this notifier patch won't be re-posted. > >> > >> But the Amlogic Platform needs a notifier since it uses a standalone CEC > >> controller. > > > > Without this, the dw-hdmi CEC support will be totally useless anyway, > > and it's pointless to merge it without this patch. > > > > Hi Russell, > > While following discussion on your last patchset, it seems you agreed with Hans > to no more rely on the cec-notifier but directly call the dw-hdmi-cec functions. Incorrect. I think you're looking at the discussion in "thread mode" and assuming that messages are stored in date order... There was a discussion about removing the cec-notifier which happened on June 1st/2nd, based off the covering email. However, there was a later discussion on June 9th (sparked by your requirement) which changed the resolution from "lets remove the notifier" to "we need to keep the notifier". This was based on patch 2/4. I never posted an updated patch set, because of the dependencies, but Hans decided on June 12th to do I-don't-know-what with the patches I sent, resulting in what we have queued up today. This brought the sub-thread containing the cec-notifier removal discussion to be _after_ the June 9th discussion, which is probably what's causing some confusion here. However, I can assure you that the resolution of the discussion with the cec-notifier was that it should remain in place - this is from the last few messages in the discussion: Hans wrote on 9th June: | You wrote on 9th June: | > It won't since the Meson platform needs it... | | Ah, I wasn't aware of that when I wrote my original comments. In that case | we do need the notifier. Which is fine, as long as the reason for that is | documented. >From what you're saying, it sounds like the CEC dw-hdmi-cec.c still relies on the notifier, but the patch which adds the CEC notifier to dw-hdmi.c was omited from what Hans did, which will result in the whole thing being a total waste of time. > Anyway, if this patch is merged separately and you still depend on it, > you could still rebase on it when it appears on drm-misc-next... Well, from what I can see in 4.12, the cec-notifier stuff is rather broken (tda998x has stopped working as its stuck with a physical address of f.f.f.f) so I think the whole thing is rather moot right now. I don't yet know what's going on with that, other than the notifier stuff seems to not be working, despite being enabled in the .config. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.