[Nouveau] [PATCH v2 05/20] drm/dp: Add backpointer to drm_device in drm_dp_aux

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com> wrote:
>   * The @dev field should be set to a pointer to the device that implements the
> - * AUX channel.
> + * AUX channel. As well, the @drm_dev field should be set to the &drm_device
> + * that will be using this AUX channel as early as possible. For many graphics
> + * drivers this should happen before drm_dp_aux_init(), however it's perfectly
> + * fine to set this field later so long as it's assigned before calling
> + * drm_dp_aux_register().

Perhaps add a follow-up patch to actually ensure this is the case in
drm_dp_aux_register()?

>   *
>   * The @name field may be used to specify the name of the I2C adapter. If set to
>   * %NULL, dev_name() of @dev will be used.
> @@ -1877,6 +1883,7 @@ struct drm_dp_aux {
>  	const char *name;
>  	struct i2c_adapter ddc;
>  	struct device *dev;
> +	struct drm_device *drm_dev;

Bikeshed, I would probably have called it just drm for brevity, but no
strong feelings.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center