linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] drm/i2c: tda998x: Add support for atomic modesetting.

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:54:10 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	DRI devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] drm/i2c: tda998x: Add support for atomic modesetting.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:44:55PM +0000, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:32:59PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 02:24:04PM +0000, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:57:18PM +0000, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:51:52PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:34:32PM +0000, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > > > > > While going through the code testing I've noticed an unbalanced
> > > > > > .unbind missing drm_connector_unregister()
> > > > > 
> > > > > That actually doesn't matter, as DRM automatically tears them down anyway,
> > > > > so this isn't an urgent change.  However, it's good practice to do so.
> > > > 
> > > > It looks like it doesn't, or at least not if the error code is -EPROBE_DEFER.
> > > > On Juno, where the clocks are provided by SCPI and the load order is not
> > > > guaranteed, the first bind will fail with -EPROBE_DEFER but the sysfs entry
> > > > is not cleaned up, so on the next attempt the drm_connector_register() call
> > > > will fail.
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Liviu
> > > 
> > > Gentle ping. Russell, are you happy with this patchset? If so, would you mind
> > > giving me your Acks?
> > 
> > As I'm the maintainer for the driver, I'll merge it, thanks.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Do I need to do anything?

The easy way to ensure that it doesn't get forgotten is to put it in my
patch system, just like ARM patches do.  It'll then nag me each time I
look at it (and also means I don't have to save it out, copy it across
to the machine with the git tree on it, and then apply it there...)

Thanks.

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