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From: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
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	 Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 08/19] drm/todo: add entry for removing the panel_bridge API
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:45:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916-drm-bridge-every-panel-v3-8-83afb4f1a707@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260916-drm-bridge-every-panel-v3-0-83afb4f1a707@bootlin.com>

Now that a drm-bridge is embedded into every drm_panel during the panel
creation, the panel_bridge does not really exist anymore. Its API has been
deprecated and kept until drivers convert to the bridge API.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
---
 Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index cb0ce432c114..a437ae5c71f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -484,6 +484,31 @@ Contact: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
 
 Level: Starter
 
+Remove panel_bridge API functions
+---------------------------------
+
+Now that a drm_bridge is embedded into every drm_panel, the panel_bridge is
+not needed anymore. Its APIs are just accessing the embedded drm_bridge
+transparently, and the are deprecated.
+
+The funcions to remove are:
+ - drm_panel_bridge_add_typed()
+ - devm_drm_of_get_bridge()
+ - drmm_of_get_bridge()
+ - drm_panel_bridge_remove()
+ - drmm_drm_panel_bridge_release()
+ - devm_drm_panel_bridge_release()
+ - their direct or indirect callers
+
+Convert users of those functions and eventually remove them when unused, or
+make them static drm_panel.c functions when used internally by the
+``drm_panel.c`` code.
+
+Contact: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
+         Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
+
+Level: Easy
+
 Convert users of of_drm_find_bridge() to of_drm_find_and_get_bridge()
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-16 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-16 13:45 [PATCH v3 00/19] drm/panel: embed a drm_bridge into every drm_panel Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] drm: of: move drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge() from drm_of.c to drm_panel.c Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-21 15:06   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] drm: of: remove now unnecessary forward declarations Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-21 15:06   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] drm/panel: move to a new module Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] drm/bridge: panel: move all code to drm_panel.c Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-21 15:08   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] drm/panel: embed a drm_bridge into every drm_panel Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  6:56   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] drm/bridge: remove devm_drm_put_bridge() Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  6:57   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] drm/panel: deprecate panel-bridge APIs Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  6:57   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` Luca Ceresoli [this message]
2026-09-22  6:58   ` [PATCH v3 08/19] drm/todo: add entry for removing the panel_bridge API Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] drm/bridge: tc358767: don't create a panel_bridge Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  6:59   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] drm/bridge: waveshare-dsi: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  6:59   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] drm/mcde: dsi: remove unused includes Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-20 22:26   ` Linus Walleij
2026-09-22  6:59   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] drm/mcde: dsi: don't create a panel_bridge Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-20 22:26   ` Linus Walleij
2026-09-22  7:09   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] drm/bridge: fsl-ldb: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-21 14:22   ` Laurentiu Palcu
2026-09-22  7:09   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  7:10   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] drm/bridge: tc358768: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  7:10   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] drm/bridge: ssd2825: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  7:21   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] drm/omap: dss: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  7:21   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] drm/tve200: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-17 15:14   ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  7:28   ` Maxime Ripard
2026-09-16 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] drm/bridge: analogix_dp: " Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-21  3:07   ` Damon Ding
2026-09-21  6:34     ` Damon Ding
2026-09-22  8:07       ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  8:54         ` Damon Ding
2026-09-22  8:12     ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-09-22  8:22       ` Heiko Stuebner
2026-09-22  8:57         ` Damon Ding

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