[PATCH 00/10] Set up generic fbdev after registering device

[Sam Ravnborg]

Hi Thomas.

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 08:28:59AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi Sam
> 
> Am 06.04.20 um 22:00 schrieb Sam Ravnborg:
> > Hi Thomas.
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> >> Generic fbdev emulation is a DRM client. If possible, it should behave
> >> like userspace clients. Therefore it should not run before the driver
> >> registered the new DRM device. If the setup function fails, the driver
> >> should not report an error.
> > 
> > Thanks for taking the time to refactor all the relevant drivers.
> > 
> > I have received some push-back in the past when suggesting this,
> > but cannot remember from who.
> > Let's see what review comments you get.
> > 
> > As the rule is that the fbdev setup shall be setup after registering
> > the DRM device - it would be nice to have this included in the
> > documentation of drm_fbdev_generic_setup
> > 
> > Could you try to to update the documentation to cover this?
> 
> Good idea. I'll add this to patchset's next iteration.

Thanks

Patch 1 to 9 are all:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>


This patch "drm/tilcdc: Set up fbdev after fully registering device"
looks a little point less, but I see from a consistency point of view
why you did it.
So therefore it is also acked.


	Sam


> 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
> > 
> > I will get back to the patches later this week.
> > 
> > 	Sam
> > 
> >>
> >> This is a follow-up patchset to the discussion at [1].  I went
> >> through all calls to drm_fbdev_generic_setup(), moved them to the
> >> final operation of their driver's probe function, and removed the
> >> return value.
> >>
> >> Built-tested on x86-64, aarch64 and arm.
> >>
> >> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200403135828.2542770-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch/T/#m216b5b37aeeb7b28d55ad73b7a702b3d1d7bf867
> >>
> >> Thomas Zimmermann (10):
> >>   drm/ast: Set up fbdev after registering device; remove error checks
> >>   drm/hibmc: Remove error check from fbdev setup
> >>   drm/kirin: Set up fbdev after fully registering device
> >>   drm/ingenic: Remove error check from fbdev setup
> >>   drm/mediathek: Remove error check from fbdev setup
> >>   drm/mgag200: Set up fbdev after registering device; remove error
> >>     checks
> >>   drm/tilcdc: Set up fbdev after fully registering device
> >>   drm/udl: Remove error check from fbdev setup
> >>   drm/vboxvideo: Set up fbdev after registering device; remove error
> >>     checks
> >>   drm/fb-helper: Remove return value from drm_fbdev_generic_setup()
> >>
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.c                  |  3 +++
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c                 |  5 -----
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c                | 18 ++++++++----------
> >>  .../gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc/hibmc_drm_drv.c    |  6 +-----
> >>  .../gpu/drm/hisilicon/kirin/kirin_drm_drv.c    |  4 ++--
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm.c          |  4 +---
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c         |  4 +---
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c          |  2 ++
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c         |  4 ----
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_drv.c            |  3 +--
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_drv.c                  |  6 +-----
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.c           |  6 ++----
> >>  include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h                    |  5 +++--
> >>  13 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.26.0
> 
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