[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 03/20] drm/dp: Move i2c init to drm_dp_aux_init, add __must_check and fini

[Lyude Paul]

OK - talked with Ville a bit on this and did some of my own research, I
actually think that moving i2c to drm_dp_aux_init() is the right decision for
the time being. The reasoning behind this being that as shown by my previous
work of fixing drivers that call drm_dp_aux_register() too early - it seems
like there's already been drivers that have been working just fine with
setting up the i2c device before DRM registration. 

In the future, it'd probably be better if we can split up i2c_add_adapter()
into an init and register function - but we'll have to talk with the i2c
maintainers to see if this is acceptable w/ them

On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 13:18 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-04-20 at 02:16 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > 
> > The init vs. register split is intentional. Registering the thing
> > and allowing userspace access to it before the rest of the driver
> > is ready isn't particularly great. For a while now we've tried to
> > move towards an architecture where the driver is fully initialzied
> > before anything gets exposed to userspace.
> 
> Yeah-thank you for pointing this out. Thierry - do you think there's an
> alternate solution we could go with in Tegra to fix the get_device() issue
> that wouldn't require us trying to expose the i2c adapter early?
> 
> > 
> 

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat