Re: [PATCH v2] drm/mediatek: mtk_dsi: Avoid EPROBE_DEFER loop with external bridge

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

Il 12/01/22 08:09, Jagan Teki ha scritto:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 3:30 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
> <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> wrote:
>>
>> DRM bridge drivers are now attaching their DSI device at probe time,
>> which requires us to register our DSI host in order to let the bridge
>> to probe: this recently started producing an endless -EPROBE_DEFER
>> loop on some machines that are using external bridges, like the
>> parade-ps8640, found on the ACER Chromebook R13.
>>
>> Now that the DSI hosts/devices probe sequence is documented, we can
>> do adjustments to the mtk_dsi driver as to both fix now and make sure
>> to avoid this situation in the future: for this, following what is
>> documented in drm_bridge.c, move the mtk_dsi component_add() to the
>> mtk_dsi_ops.attach callback and delete it in the detach callback;
>> keeping in mind that we are registering a drm_bridge for our DSI,
>> which is only used/attached if the DSI Host is bound, it wouldn't
>> make sense to keep adding our bridge at probe time (as it would
>> be useless to have it if mtk_dsi_ops.attach() fails!), so also move
>> that one to the dsi host attach function (and remove it in detach).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
>> ---
> 
> Eventually I've observed similar issue on other Component based DSI
> controllers, hence
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
> 

Hello dri-devel,
can you please pick this patch?

All MediaTek platforms are broken in v5.17 without this one.

Thanks,
Angelo