Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] drm/vkms: convert to use faux_device

[Lyude Paul]

Lol, I wrote up a patch for this last night but it looks like you got here
first :P

On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 18:38 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The vkms driver does not need to create a platform device, as there is
> no real platform resources associated it,  it only did so because it was
> simple to do that in order to get a device to use for resource
> management of drm resources.  Change the driver to use the faux device
> instead as this is NOT a real platform device.
> 
> Cc: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  v3: new patch in the series.  For an example of the api working, does
>      not have to be merged at this time, but I can take it if the
>      maintainers give an ack.
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h |  4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> index e0409aba9349..b1269f984886 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>   */
>  
>  #include <linux/module.h>
> -#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +#include <linux/device/faux.h>
>  #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
>  
>  #include <drm/clients/drm_client_setup.h>
> @@ -177,25 +177,25 @@ static int vkms_modeset_init(struct vkms_device *vkmsdev)
>  static int vkms_create(struct vkms_config *config)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> -	struct platform_device *pdev;
> +	struct faux_device *fdev;
>  	struct vkms_device *vkms_device;
>  
> -	pdev = platform_device_register_simple(DRIVER_NAME, -1, NULL, 0);
> -	if (IS_ERR(pdev))
> -		return PTR_ERR(pdev);
> +	fdev = faux_device_create(DRIVER_NAME, NULL);
> +	if (!fdev)
> +		return -ENODEV;
>  
> -	if (!devres_open_group(&pdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> +	if (!devres_open_group(&fdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL)) {
>  		ret = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto out_unregister;
>  	}
>  
> -	vkms_device = devm_drm_dev_alloc(&pdev->dev, &vkms_driver,
> +	vkms_device = devm_drm_dev_alloc(&fdev->dev, &vkms_driver,
>  					 struct vkms_device, drm);
>  	if (IS_ERR(vkms_device)) {
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(vkms_device);
>  		goto out_devres;
>  	}
> -	vkms_device->platform = pdev;
> +	vkms_device->faux_dev = fdev;
>  	vkms_device->config = config;
>  	config->dev = vkms_device;
>  
> @@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ static int vkms_create(struct vkms_config *config)
>  	return 0;
>  
>  out_devres:
> -	devres_release_group(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> +	devres_release_group(&fdev->dev, NULL);
>  out_unregister:
> -	platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> +	faux_device_destroy(fdev);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> @@ -259,19 +259,19 @@ static int __init vkms_init(void)
>  
>  static void vkms_destroy(struct vkms_config *config)
>  {
> -	struct platform_device *pdev;
> +	struct faux_device *fdev;
>  
>  	if (!config->dev) {
>  		DRM_INFO("vkms_device is NULL.\n");
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	pdev = config->dev->platform;
> +	fdev = config->dev->faux_dev;
>  
>  	drm_dev_unregister(&config->dev->drm);
>  	drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(&config->dev->drm);
> -	devres_release_group(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> -	platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> +	devres_release_group(&fdev->dev, NULL);
> +	faux_device_destroy(fdev);
>  
>  	config->dev = NULL;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h
> index 00541eff3d1b..4668b0e29a84 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h
> @@ -209,13 +209,13 @@ struct vkms_config {
>   * struct vkms_device - Description of a VKMS device
>   *
>   * @drm - Base device in DRM
> - * @platform - Associated platform device
> + * @faux_dev- Associated faux device

Small nitpick - you dropped the space on the - here by mistake

With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>

>   * @output - Configuration and sub-components of the VKMS device
>   * @config: Configuration used in this VKMS device
>   */
>  struct vkms_device {
>  	struct drm_device drm;
> -	struct platform_device *platform;
> +	struct faux_device *faux_dev;
>  	struct vkms_output output;
>  	const struct vkms_config *config;
>  };

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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