Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 6 authors, 2026-04-01

Re: [PATCH 6/8] drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: move next_bridge lookup to attach time

From: Liu Ying <victor.liu@nxp.com>
Date: 2026-03-26 07:49:05
Also in: dri-devel, imx, lkml

Hi Luca,

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 11:46:17AM +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
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This driver looks up the next_bridge at probe time and stores it in
hdmi->bridge.next_bridge, but only uses the stored value when attaching,
and only in the DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR case.

This will be problematic with an upcoming change, adding an hdmi-connector
using a device tree overlay when not present. That change is in turn
necessary to migrate the i.MX LCDIF driver to the bridge-connector.

The problem is that, adding the hdmi-connector via an overlay, devlink
considers hdmi-connector a consumer of the dw-hdmi device, generating a
chicken-egg problem:

 * hdmi-connector probe won't be tried until dw-hdmi is probed (devlink)
 * dw-hdmi probe will defer until it finds the next_bridge (the
   hdmi-connector wrapper bridge)

In preparation for those changes, move the next_bridge lookup from probe to
attach, when it is actually used. This allows dw-hdmi to probe, so that the
hdmi-connector can probe as well.

Also avoid storing the pointer in hdmi->bridge.next_bridge: the value is
computed when needed, thus a local variable is enough.

Finally, this also allows to slightly improve the code by not doing any DT
lookup in the !DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR case.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c | 41 +++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
index a668d66aeece..4ee865a1a6c8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
@@ -2914,9 +2914,18 @@ static int dw_hdmi_bridge_attach(struct drm_bridge *bridge,
 	if (WARN_ON((flags & DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR) && !hdmi->plat_data->output_port))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (flags & DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR)
-		return drm_bridge_attach(encoder, hdmi->bridge.next_bridge,
-					 bridge, flags);
+	if (flags & DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR) {
+		struct device_node *remote __free(device_node) =
Include linux/cleanup.h as __free() is used.
+			of_graph_get_remote_node(hdmi->dev->of_node,
+						 hdmi->plat_data->output_port, -1);
+		if (!remote)
+			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
Should return -ENODEV instead?
+
+		struct drm_bridge *next_bridge __free(drm_bridge_put) =
+			of_drm_find_and_get_bridge(remote);
+
+		return drm_bridge_attach(encoder, next_bridge, bridge, flags);
+	}
 
 	return dw_hdmi_connector_create(hdmi);
 }
-- 
Regards,
Liu Ying
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