[PATCH 0/5] DRM device-alloc cleanup

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 04:00:00PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:23 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> This cleans up the bus drivers in DRM. Instead of copying the device alloc/free
> >> semantics into each bus driver (drm_{pci,platform,usb}.c) we now have a central
> >> place in drm_stub.c.
> >>
> >> This introduces drm_dev_{alloc,free,register,unregister}(). They have the same
> >> semantics as most other kernel subsystems. *_alloc() allocates a new device and
> >> populates the static fields and sub-objects. *_free() frees an unregistered
> >> object allocated via *_alloc(). *_register() registers a DRM device and
> >> *_unregister() obviously unregisters a DRM device. A *_free() is still needed
> >> after calling *_unregister() (same as for "struct device"). No ref-counting is
> >> added as it is not required by any driver.
> >>
> >> Note that the bus drivers are modified to use the new helpers directly. However,
> >> I didn't modify the drivers to use *_unregister() and *_free() directly.
> >> Instead, the drm_put_dev() helper was modified to use these. Reason for that is
> >> that I have pending patches to make device hotplugging safer regarding mmaps.
> >> But these aren't ready, yet. Hopefully I can get them ready for rc5 or rc6.
> >>
> >> Tested on nouveau.
> >>
> >
> > Okay I've merged this series, a follow-on to fix the AGP bits like
> > Daniel suggested would be good.
> 
> Actually this oopses i915 on startup, I fixed up the lack of passing
> flags into drm_dev_register,
> so it can be passed to load, and it seems to work now, I've squashed
> my fix into the series in my tree
> 
> please read/review the series for your learning pleasure.

Oops, shame on me for failing to spot the unconditional 0 passed for
flags. i915.ko really doesn't like that ;-)
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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