On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 12:25:17AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote: > On 2024/5/2 16:32, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 12:27:14AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote: > > > On 2024/4/30 22:13, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 05:13:43AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
... > > > > the former might be subdivided to "is it swnode backed or real fwnode > > > > one?" > > > > > > > Yeah, > > > On non-DT cases, it can be subdivided to swnode backed case and ACPI > > > fwnode backed case. > > > > > > - For swnode backed case: the device_get_match_data() don't has a > > > implemented backend. > > > - For ACPI fwnode backed case: the device_get_match_data() has a > > > implemented backend. > > > > > > But the driver has *neither* software node support > > True. > > > > > nor ACPI support, > > Not true. > > Why this is not true? Are you means that the panel-ilitek-ili9341 driver has > ACPI support? That's the idea (as far as I see the copy of the code from tinyDRM), but broken over the copy'n'paste. This patch rectifies that to be in align with the original code, which *does* support ACPI. > I'm asking because I don't see struct acpi_device_id related stuff in that > source file, > am I miss something? Yes, you are. I leave it for you to research. > > So, slow down and take your time to get into the code and understand how it > > works. > > > > > so that the rotation property can not get and ili9341_dpi_probe() will > > > fails. > > > So in total, this is not a 100% correct use of device property APIs. > > > > > > But I'm fine that if you want to leave(ignore) those less frequent use > > > cases temporarily, > > > there may have programmers want to post patches, to complete the missing > > > in the future. > > > > > > So, there do have some gains on non-DT cases. > > > > > > - As you make it be able to compiled on X86 with the drm-misc-defconfig. > > > - You cleanup the code up (at least patch 2 in this series is no > > > obvious problem). > > > - You allow people to modprobe it, and maybe half right and half > > > undefined. > > > > > > But you do helps moving something forward, so congratulations for the > > > wake up. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
