• Laurent Pinchart's avatar
    drm/bridge: Extend bridge API to disable connector creation · a25b988f
    Laurent Pinchart authored
    Most bridge drivers create a DRM connector to model the connector at the
    output of the bridge. This model is historical and has worked pretty
    well so far, but causes several issues:
    
    - It prevents supporting more complex display pipelines where DRM
    connector operations are split over multiple components. For instance a
    pipeline with a bridge connected to the DDC signals to read EDID data,
    and another one connected to the HPD signal to detect connection and
    disconnection, will not be possible to support through this model.
    
    - It requires every bridge driver to implement similar connector
    handling code, resulting in code duplication.
    
    - It assumes that a bridge will either be wired to a connector or to
    another bridge, but doesn't support bridges that can be used in both
    positions very well (although there is some ad-hoc support for this in
    the analogix_dp bridge driver).
    
    In order to solve these issues, ownership of the connector should be
    moved to the display controller driver (where it can be implemented
    using helpers provided by the core).
    
    Extend the bridge API to allow disabling connector creation in bridge
    drivers as a first step towards the new model. The new flags argument to
    the bridge .attach() operation allows instructing the bridge driver to
    skip creating a connector. Unconditionally set the new flags argument to
    0 for now to keep the existing behaviour, and modify all existing bridge
    drivers to return an error when connector creation is not requested as
    they don't support this feature yet.
    
    The change is based on the following semantic patch, with manual review
    and edits.
    
    @ rule1 @
    identifier funcs;
    identifier fn;
    @@
     struct drm_bridge_funcs funcs = {
     	...,
     	.attach = fn
     };
    
    @ depends on rule1 @
    identifier rule1.fn;
    identifier bridge;
    statement S, S1;
    @@
     int fn(
     	struct drm_bridge *bridge
    +	, enum drm_bridge_attach_flags flags
     )
     {
     	... when != S
    +	if (flags & DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR) {
    +		DRM_ERROR("Fix bridge driver to make connector optional!");
    +		return -EINVAL;
    +	}
    +
     	S1
     	...
     }
    
    @ depends on rule1 @
    identifier rule1.fn;
    identifier bridge, flags;
    expression E1, E2, E3;
    @@
     int fn(
     	struct drm_bridge *bridge,
     	enum drm_bridge_attach_flags flags
     ) {
     <...
     drm_bridge_attach(E1, E2, E3
    +	, flags
     )
     ...>
     }
    
    @@
    expression E1, E2, E3;
    @@
     drm_bridge_attach(E1, E2, E3
    +	, 0
     )
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarSebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200226112514.12455-10-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com
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