On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:58 PM Oleksandr Suvorov oleksandr.suvorov@toradex.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:41 PM maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:05:23AM +0000, Oleksandr Suvorov wrote:
Even in source code of this driver there is an author's description: /* * Even if we have an I2C bus, we can't assume that the cable * is disconnected if drm_probe_ddc fails. Some cables don't * wire the DDC pins, or the I2C bus might not be working at * all. */
That's true. DDC and VGA channels are independent, and therefore we cannot decide whether the monitor is connected or not, depending on the information from the DDC.
So the monitor should always be considered connected.
Well, no. Like you said, we cannot decided whether is connected or not.
Maxime, thanks, I agree that's a bad solution. But I still think we should be able to define the DT node of a device for this driver to claim the connector is always connected. Please see my following thoughts.
Thus there is no reason to use connector detect callback for this driver: DRM sub-system considers monitor always connected if there is no detect() callback registered with drm_connector_init().
How to reproduce the bug:
- setup: i.MX8QXP, LCDIF video module + gpu/drm/mxsfb driver, adv712x VGA DAC + dumb-vga-dac driver, VGA-connector w/o DDC;
- try to use drivers chain mxsfb-drm + dumb-vga-dac;
any DRM applications consider the monitor is not connected:
$ weston-start $ cat /var/log/weston.log ... DRM: head 'VGA-1' found, connector 32 is disconnected. ... $ cat /sys/devices/platform/5a180000.lcdif/drm/card0/card0-VGA-1/status unknownAnd that's exactly what's being reported here: we cannot decide if it is connected or not, so it's unknown.
If weston chooses to ignore connectors that are in an unknown state, I'd say it's weston's problem, since it's much broader than this particular device.
If we look at the code of drm_probe_helper.c, we can see, the drm_helper_probe_detect_ctx() assume the cable is connected if there is no detect() callback registered. ... if (funcs->detect_ctx) ret = funcs->detect_ctx(connector, &ctx, force); else if (connector->funcs->detect) ret = connector->funcs->detect(connector, force); else ret = connector_status_connected; ...
The driver dumb-vga-dac supports both DT configurations:
- with DDC channel, that allows us to detect if the cable is connected;
- without DDC channel. In this case, IMHO, the driver should behave
the same way as a connector driver without registered detect() callback.
So what about the patch like?
Still no. The "always connected" case is for outputs which are physically always connected and typing a dummy function which would unconditionally return connected would be silly. Like built-in panels. This is _not_ for external screens. -Daniel
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ dumb_vga_connector_detect(struct drm_connector *connector, bool force) { struct dumb_vga *vga = drm_connector_to_dumb_vga(connector);
/** If I2C bus for DDC is not defined, asume that the cable* is always connected.*/if (PTR_ERR(vga->ddc) == -ENODEV)return connector_status_connected;/* * Even if we have an I2C bus, we can't assume that the cable * is disconnected if drm_probe_ddc fails. Some cables don't-- Best regards Oleksandr Suvorov
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