Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] drm: Add DRM support for tiny LCD displays

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 07:48:52PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> +const struct file_operations tinydrm_fops = {
> +	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
> +	.open		= drm_open,
> +	.release	= drm_release,
> +	.unlocked_ioctl	= drm_ioctl,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> +	.compat_ioctl	= drm_compat_ioctl,
> +#endif
> +	.poll		= drm_poll,
> +	.read		= drm_read,
> +	.llseek		= no_llseek,
> +	.mmap		= drm_gem_cma_mmap,
> +};
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tinydrm_fops);

Just spotted this while doing a drive-by refactoring, this doesn't really
work. The THIS_MODULE must be in the source code for your driver, and
can't be in some helper library module like tinydrm.ko.

I'm working on a macro to make this easier, and I guess you could try to
integrate that into your driver macro somehow (probably simplest to
generate the entire structure and just pass name+desc to that macro,
everything else is boilerplate anyway).

I'll cc you on that patch.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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