[PATCH 2/2] gpu/drm: ingenic: Add workaround for disabled drivers
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Aug 5 19:35:34 UTC 2021
On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 09:21:09PM +0200, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> When the drivers of remote devices (e.g. HDMI chip) are disabled in the
> config, we want the ingenic-drm driver to be able to probe nonetheless
> with the other devices (e.g. internal LCD panel) that are enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul at crapouillou.net>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> index d261f7a03b18..5e1fdbb0ba6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/ingenic-drm-drv.c
> @@ -1058,6 +1058,18 @@ static int ingenic_drm_bind(struct device *dev, bool has_components)
> for (i = 0; ; i++) {
> ret = drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge(dev->of_node, 0, i, &panel, &bridge);
> if (ret) {
> + /*
> + * Workaround for the case where the drivers for the
> + * remote devices are not enabled. When that happens,
> + * drm_of_find_panel_or_bridge() returns -EPROBE_DEFER
> + * endlessly, which prevents the ingenic-drm driver from
> + * working at all.
> + */
> + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> + ret = driver_deferred_probe_check_state(dev);
> + if (ret == -ENODEV || ret == -ETIMEDOUT)
> + continue;
> + }
So you are mucking around with devices on other busses within this
driver? What could go wrong? :(
Please use the existing driver core functionality for this type of
thing, it is not unique, no need for this function to be called.
thanks,
greg k-h
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