Re: [PATCH v2 02/20] drm/tegra: Don't register DP AUX channels before connectors

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Mon Mar 29 2021 - 02:51:25 EST


On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 04:37:49PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> As pointed out by the documentation for drm_dp_aux_register(),
> drm_dp_aux_init() should be used in situations where the AUX channel for a
> display driver can potentially be registered before it's respective DRM
> driver. This is the case with Tegra, since the DP aux channel exists as a
> platform device instead of being a grandchild of the DRM device.
>
> Since we're about to add a backpointer to a DP AUX channel's respective DRM
> device, let's fix this so that we don't potentially allow userspace to use
> the AUX channel before we've associated it with it's DRM connector.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dpaux.c | 11 ++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

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