Re: [PATCH v4] drm/bochs: add drm_driver.release callback.

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 03:19:56PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:52:18PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Call bochs_unload via drm_driver.release to make sure we release stuff
> > when it is safe to do so.  Use drm_dev_{enter,exit,unplug} to avoid
> > touching hardware after device removal.  Tidy up here and there.
> > 
> > v4: add changelog.
> > v3: use drm_dev_*().
> > v2: move hardware deinit to pci_remove().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> 
> Btw I checked around whether there's anything else that obviously needs a
> drm_dev_enter/exit, and I spotted the !bochs->mmio check in
> bochs_hw_load_edid. That one looks like cargo-cult, there's a single
> caller in the init path, so either mmio works at that point or this is
> dead code ... slightly confusing.

FYI:  bochs->mmio actually can be NULL when running on very old qemu
versions, the mmio bar was added in qemu release 1.3.  All the register
access functions in bochs_hw.c have a fallback going to ioports because
of that.  So there is a reason for the check, even though it is highly
unlikely that mmio actually is NULL these days.  qemu 1.3 was released
in 2013 ...

cheers,
  Gerd