[PATCH] drm/panel: Avoid warnings w/ panel-simple/panel-edp at shutdown

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 9:40 AM Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 1:46 PM Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 1:45 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > At shutdown if you've got a _properly_ coded DRM modeset driver then
> > > you'll get these two warnings at shutdown time:
> > >
> > >   Skipping disable of already disabled panel
> > >   Skipping unprepare of already unprepared panel
> > >
> > > These warnings are ugly and sound concerning, but they're actually a
> > > sign of a properly working system. That's not great.
> > >
> > > We're not ready to get rid of the calls to drm_panel_disable() and
> > > drm_panel_unprepare() because we're not 100% convinced that all DRM
> > > modeset drivers are properly calling drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() or
> > > drm_helper_force_disable_all() at the right times. However, having the
> > > warning show up for correctly working systems is bad.
> > >
> > > As a bit of a workaround, add some "if" tests to try to avoid the
> > > warning on correctly working systems. Also add some comments and
> > > update the TODO items in the hopes that future developers won't be too
> > > confused by what's going on here.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> > > ---
> > > This patch came out of discussion on dri-devel on 2024-06-21
> > > [1]. NOTE: I have put all changes into one patch since it didn't seem
> > > to add anything to break up the updating of the TODO or the comments
> > > in the core into separate patches since the patch is all about one
> > > topic and all code is expected to land in the same tree.
> > >
> > > Previous versions:
> > > v0: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240604172305.v3.24.Ieb287c2c3ee3f6d3b0d5f49b29f746b93621749c@changeid/
> > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240611074846.1.Ieb287c2c3ee3f6d3b0d5f49b29f746b93621749c@changeid
> > >
> > > [1] https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=dri-devel&date=2024-06-21
> > >
> > >  Documentation/gpu/todo.rst           | 35 +++++++++++++---------------
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c          | 18 ++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.c    | 26 ++++++++++++++-------
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c | 26 ++++++++++++++-------
> > >  4 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> >
> > Ugh! I realized right after I hit "send" that I forgot to mark this as
> > V2 and give it version history. Sorry! :( Please consider this to be
> > v2. It's basically totally different than v1 based on today's IRC
> > discussion, which should be linked above.
> >
> > If I need to send a new version I will send it as v3.
>
> Is anyone willing to give me a Reviewed-by and/or Acked by for this
> patch? ...or does anything want me to make any changes? Given all the
> discussion we had, it would be nice to get this landed before we
> forget what we agreed upon. :-P

Landed in drm-misc-next with Neil and Linus W's tags.

[1/1] drm/panel: Avoid warnings w/ panel-simple/panel-edp at shutdown
      commit: f00bfaca704ca1a2c4e31501a0a7d4ee434e73a7

-Doug