Hi, On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 05:42:28PM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote: > On 2023/10/30 06:53, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 at 21:46, Sui Jingfeng <suijingf...@loongson.cn> wrote: > > > The IT66121 is a DVO to HDMI converter, LS3A5000+LS7A1000 ML5A_MB use this > > > chip to support HDMI output. Thus add a drm bridge based driver for it. > > > This patch is developed with drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ite-it66121.c as base. > > Please use the original bridge driver instead of adding a new one.
FTR I agree with Dmitry here, duplicating drivers because it's easier is a show-stopper > I'm agree with the spirit of code sharing, but this is nearly > impossible for non-DT system. > > Because the original bridge driver(say it66121.ko) is fully dependent > on the DT. UEFI+ACPI based system can not use with it. > > Our I2C adapter is created by the drm/loongson.ko on the runtime. > The potential problem is that *cyclic dependency* ! > > I2C adapter driver is depend on drm/loongson > drm/loongson depend on drm bridge driver (say it66121.ko) > drm bridge driver (say it66121.ko) depend on I2C adapter to setup. > > This plus the defer probe mechanism is totally a trap, > incurring troubles and don't work. I'm sure all those issues can be fixed :) Maxime
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