Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: don't register the connector

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:54:06PM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:25:04PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:55:48AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote:
> > > The connector shouldn't be registered until the rest of the whole device
> > > is set up, so that consistent state is presented to userspace.
> > > 
> > > As drm_dev_register() now registers all of the connectors anyway,
> > > there's no need to explicitly do it in individual drivers so remove
> > > the calls to drm_connector_register()/drm_connector_unregister().
> > > 
> > > This allows componentised drivers to use tda998x without having racy
> > > initialisation.
> > 
> > Is there a corresponding patch for armada-drm so that the cubox doesn't
> > regress?  Has it already been merged?
> > 
> 
> A patch for armada-drm to do what?
> 
> I should perhaps have explicitly mentioned that this change depends
> on e28cd4d0a223: "drm: Automatically register/unregister all
> connectors", which is in drm-next.
> 
> Like my commit message says - after the above commit, all connectors
> are automatically registered in drm_dev_register() - so I don't
> anticipate any regression, but I don't have a cubox to test.
> 
> armada-drm seems to be doing effectively the same thing as arm/hdlcd,
> which works fine after this patch with no other changes.
> 
> Let me know if I've missed something; or if you are able to test on
> cubox that would be great.

Ack from my side on generally nuking drm_connector_register() from
everywhere except truely hotplugged connectors like dp mst. It should keep
working for everyone. Only exception is if there's a driver which calls
drm_dev_register too early (before all connectors are probed), which would
be a bug anyway.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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