[PATCH 1/7] drm/bridge: Support hotplugging panel-bridge.

[Eric Anholt]

Archit Taneja <architt at codeaurora.org> writes:

> On 06/16/2017 02:11 AM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> If the panel-bridge is being set up after the drm_mode_config_reset(),
>> then the connector's state would never get initialized, and we'd
>> dereference the NULL in the hotplug path.  We also need to register
>> the connector, so that userspace can get at it.
>> 
>
> Shouldn't the KMS driver make sure the panel-bridge is set up before
> drm_mode_config_reset? Is it the case when we're inserting the
> panel-bridge driver as a module?
>
>
> All the connectors that have been added are registered automatically
> when drm_dev_register() is called by the KMS driver. Registering a
> connector in the middle of setting up our driver is prone to race
> conditions if the userspace decides to use them immediately.

Yeah, this is fixing initializing panel_bridge at DSI host_attach time,
which in the case of a panel module that creates the DSI device
(adv7533-style, like you said I should use as a reference) will be after
drm_mode_config_reset() and drm_dev_register().
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