[PATCH] drm/imx: imx-ldb: do not try to dereference crtc->state->state in encoder mode_set

Philipp Zabel p.zabel at pengutronix.de
Mon Jul 25 10:42:50 UTC 2016


Am Freitag, den 22.07.2016, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:57:15PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 22.07.2016, 11:35 +0200 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > [...]
> > > Proper fix would be to roll out atomic_ versions of all teh encoder
> > > callbacks where we additionally pass both the crtc state and the connector
> > > state. Then there's no need for walking connector lists like that. And in
> > > the atomic helpers those two states are always readily available, and
> > > passing them down to callbacks is also what we will do in i915. I'd be
> > > happy to merge such a patch.
> > 
> > Thanks, that is a good idea. Which encoder callbacks besides mode_set ->
> > atomic_mode_set are you thinking of, though? enable/disable?
> 
> Yes. The only other one is mode_fixup, and we already have atomic_check as
> the fancy replacement for that. Please align the parameter ordering with
> encoder->atomic_check for consistency.

Which crtc state should be passed to encoder atomic_disable?
old_crtc_state?

> Also when you do that patch, pls don't forget the vtable kerneldoc
> comments, and make sure there's no warnings/issues and it renders nicely
> using
> 
> $ make htmldocs
> 
> Since 4.8 will feature a new sphinx-based toolchain, pls run that command
> on top of linux-next (for the latest sphinx fixes from docs-next).
> -Daniel

Ok, I'll have a look.

thanks
Philipp



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