Re: [RFC v2 6/8] gpu: drm: tegra: Remove redundant host1x

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Terje Bergström <tbergstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You're right in that binding to a sub-device is not a nice way. DRM
> framework just needs a "struct device" to bind to. exynos seems to solve
> this by introducing a virtual device and bind to that. I'm not sure if
> this is the best way, but worth considering?

Note that I'm not too happy about the fact that drm wants a struct
device to register a drm device. This all made a lot of sense back in
the days when drm drivers this this fancy shadow attaching to allow
drm to use a driver for rendering cooperatively with a fbdev driver.
Today there's not much reason for that anymore imo, and I'd welcome
patches to allow drivers to simply register a drm device (and remove
all the newer registration functions for usb/platform/whatever
drivers, moving the device handling into drivers). Note that it's a
bit work, since not-really-required abstraction (which was useful back
when the drm drivers have been shared with *BSD, but pointless now)
like the drm irq support needs to be moved away to a pci-dev legacy
thing only - it doesn't really buy a kms driver anything above&beyond
calling request_irq() itself.

So feel free to burn this down, I'll be happy to carry wood to the
pyre in the from of reviews (not much time for more right now ...).

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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