[PATCH 00/14] drm: Make DRM's IRQ helpers legacy

[Sam Ravnborg]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 08:27:07PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> DRM's IRQ helpers are only helpful for old, non-KMS drivers. Move
> the code behind CONFIG_DRM_LEGACY. Convert KMS drivers to Linux
> IRQ interfaces.
> 
> DRM provides IRQ helpers for setting up, receiving and removing IRQ
> handlers. It's an abstraction over plain Linux functions. The code
> is mid-layerish with several callbacks to hook into the rsp drivers.
> Old UMS driver have their interrupts enabled via ioctl, so these
> abstractions makes some sense. Modern KMS manage all their interrupts
> internally. Using the DRM helpers adds indirection without benefits.
> 
> Most KMs drivers already use Linux IRQ functions instead of DRM's
> abstraction layer. Patches 1 to 12 convert the remaining ones.
> The patches also resolve a bug for devices without assigned interrupt
> number. DRM helpers don't test for IRQ_NOTCONNECTED, so drivers do
> not detect if the device has no interrupt assigned.

Before diving into a review of these..
Any specific reason devm_request_irq is not used?

	Sam