[PATCH v2 3/4] 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.

v2: make the documentation changes in v1 more precise (Maxime)

Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anusha Srivatsa <asrivats@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
index 7b17531d85a4dc3031709919564d2e4d8332f748..870bf8d471ee9c5fe65d88acc13661cacd883b9b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ 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().
  */
 void drm_panel_add(struct drm_panel *panel)
 {

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