[PATCH 4/5] drm/panel: deprecate old-style panel allocation

[Anusha Srivatsa]

Start moving to the new refcounted allocations using
the new API devm_drm_panel_alloc(). Deprecate any other
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Anusha Srivatsa <asrivats@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
index 11a0415bc61f59190ef5eb378d1583c493265e6a..5793011f4938a2d4fb9d84a700817bda317af305 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
@@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_panel_init);
  * drm_panel_add - add a panel to the global registry
  * @panel: panel to add
  *
- * Add a panel to the global registry so that it can be looked up by display
- * drivers.
+ * Add a panel to the global registry so that it can be looked
+ * up by display drivers. The panel to be added must have been
+ * allocated by devm_drm_panel_alloc(). Old-style allocation by
+ * kzalloc(), devm_kzalloc() and similar is deprecated.
  */
 void drm_panel_add(struct drm_panel *panel)
 {

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