Re: [PATCH] drm: rcar-du: Use drm_dev_put

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Wed Apr 25 2018 - 09:32:19 EST


Hi Vaishali,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 15:10:36 EEST Vaishali Thakkar wrote:
> As specified in drm_drv.c, drm_dev_unref is a compatibility alias
> for drm_dev_put and shouldn't be used in new code. So, use
> drm_dev_put instead.

This looks good to me. However, how about taking it one step further and mass-
patching all drivers to use drm_dev_put() ? We could then remove
drm_dev_unref() completely.

> Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c index 05745e86d73e..418a80e6b2f4
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c
> @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int rcar_du_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> drm_kms_helper_poll_fini(ddev);
> drm_mode_config_cleanup(ddev);
>
> - drm_dev_unref(ddev);
> + drm_dev_put(ddev);
>
> return 0;
> }

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart