[PATCH] staging: drm/omap: move where DMM driver is registered

Rob Clark rob.clark at linaro.org
Thu Apr 5 10:44:56 PDT 2012


On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:51:30AM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:34:56AM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
>> >> From: Rob Clark <rob at ti.com>
>> >>
>> >> Not sure what triggered the change in behavior, but seems to
>> >> result in recursively acquiring a mutex and hanging on boot.  But
>> >> omap_drm_init() seems a much more sane place to register the
>> >> driver for the DMM sub-device.
>> >> ---
>> >>  drivers/staging/omapdrm/omap_drv.c |    7 ++++---
>> >>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Is this needed for 3.4-final?  Any older kernels like 3.3 as well?
>>
>> Yeah, it is needed for 3.4-final..  I need to check on 3.3 (it was
>> fine circa 3.3-rc6 or rc7)
>
> Ok, I'll queue it up for 3.4-final, let me know if it's also needed in
> 3.3 if you get the chance.
>

oh, duh.. I realized that patch that split DMM into a sub-device (for
hwmod) was actually part of the patches for 3.4, so the problem didn't
exist yet in 3.3 :-)

BR,
-R


> greg k-h
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