From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752023AbcGYMZU (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:25:20 -0400 Received: from pandora.armlinux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:54402 "EHLO pandora.armlinux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751292AbcGYMZT (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:25:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:25:04 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Brian Starkey Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Liviu.Dudau@arm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: don't register the connector Message-ID: <20160725122504.GS1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <1469444148-19003-1-git-send-email-brian.starkey@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1469444148-19003-1-git-send-email-brian.starkey@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:55:48AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote: > The connector shouldn't be registered until the rest of the whole device > is set up, so that consistent state is presented to userspace. > > As drm_dev_register() now registers all of the connectors anyway, > there's no need to explicitly do it in individual drivers so remove > the calls to drm_connector_register()/drm_connector_unregister(). > > This allows componentised drivers to use tda998x without having racy > initialisation. Is there a corresponding patch for armada-drm so that the cubox doesn't regress? Has it already been merged? -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.