Re: [RFT PATCH 01/15] drm/armada: Call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() at shutdown time

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 04:41:12PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> Based on grepping through the source code this driver appears to be
> missing a call to drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() at system shutdown
> time. Among other things, this means that if a panel is in use that it
> won't be cleanly powered off at system shutdown time.
> 
> The fact that we should call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() in the case
> of OS shutdown/restart comes straight out of the kernel doc "driver
> instance overview" in drm_drv.c.
> 
> This driver was fairly easy to update. The drm_device is stored in the
> drvdata so we just have to make sure the drvdata is NULL whenever the
> device is not bound.

... and there I think you have a misunderstanding of the driver model.
Please have a look at device_unbind_cleanup() which will be called if
probe fails, or when the device is removed (in other words, when it is
not bound to a driver.)

Also, devices which aren't bound to a driver won't have their shutdown
method called (because there is no driver currently bound to that
device.) So, ->probe must have completed successfully, and ->remove
must not have been called for that device.

So, I think that all these dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL) that you're
adding are just asking for a kernel janitor to come along later and
remove them because they serve no purpose... so best not introduce
them in the first place.

Thanks.

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