Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] drm/panel: ili9882t: Don't use a table for initting panels

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:43 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Consensus on the mailing lists is that panels shouldn't use a table of
> init commands but should instead use init functions. With the recently
> introduced mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq_multi() this is not only clean/easy
> but also saves space. Measuring before/after this change:
>
> $ scripts/bloat-o-meter \
>   .../before/panel-ilitek-ili9882t.ko \
>   .../after/panel-ilitek-ili9882t.ko
> add/remove: 3/2 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 6834/-8177 (-1343)
> Function                                     old     new   delta
> starry_ili9882t_init                           -    6152   +6152
> starry_ili9882t_init.d                         -     678    +678
> ili9882t_disable.d                             -       4      +4
> ili9882t_disable                             260     228     -32
> ili9882t_prepare                             540     396    -144
> .compoundliteral                             681       -    -681
> starry_ili9882t_init_cmd                    7320       -   -7320
> Total: Before=11928, After=10585, chg -11.26%
>
> Let's do the conversion.
>
> Since we're touching all the tables, let's also convert hex numbers to
> lower case as per kernel conventions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for doing this Doug, everything is starting to look much
better after this series, and I hope we can keep Chromium display
drivers looking this good going forward.

Yours,
Linus Walleij