Re: [PATCH v2] drm/bridge: waveshare-dsi: Register and attach our DSI device at probe

["Luca Ceresoli" <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>]

Hi Marek,

On Fri Feb 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM CET, Marek Vasut wrote:
> In order to avoid any probe ordering issue, the best practice is to move
> the secondary MIPI-DSI device registration and attachment to the
> MIPI-DSI host at probe time.
>
> Besides solving the probe ordering problems, this makes the bridge work
> with R-Car DU. The R-Car DU will attempt to locate the DSI host bridge in
> its own rcar_du_probe()->rcar_du_modeset_init()->rcar_du_encoder_init()
> by calling of_drm_find_bridge() which calls of_drm_find_and_get_bridge()
> and iterates over bridge_list to locate the DSI host bridge.
>
> However, unless the WS driver calls mipi_dsi_attach() in probe(), the
> DSI host bridge .attach callback rcar_mipi_dsi_host_attach() is not
> called and the DSI host bridge is not added into bridge_list. Therefore
> the of_drm_find_and_get_bridge() called from du_probe() will never find
> the DSI host bridge and probe will indefinitelly fail with -EPROBE_DEFER.
>
> The circular dependency here is, that if rcar_du_encoder_init() would
> manage to find the DSI host bridge, it would call the WS driver .attach
> callback ws_bridge_bridge_attach(), but this is too late and can never
> happen. This change avoids the circular dependency.
>
> Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>

Thanks for the very clear description! R-by confirmed.

Luca

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