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Historically "simple" eDP panels have been handled by panel-simple which is a basic platform_device. In the device tree, the panel node was at the top level and not connected to anything else. Let's change it so that, instead, panels can be represented as being children of the "DP AUX bus". Essentially we're saying that the hierarchy that we're going to represent is the "control" connections between devices. The DP AUX bus is a control bus provided by an eDP controller (the parent) and consumed by a device like a panel (the child). The primary incentive here is to cleanly provide the panel driver the ability to communicate over the AUX bus while handling lifetime issues properly. The panel driver may want the AUX bus for controlling the backlight or querying the panel's EDID. The idea for this bus's design was hashed out over IRC [1]. [1] https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=dri-devel&date=2021-05-11 Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Cc: Rajeev Nandan <rajeevny@codeaurora.org> Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210611101711.v10.4.I787c9ba09ed5ce12500326ded73a4f7c9265b1b3@changeid |
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