linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Call drm_encoder

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Date:	Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:39:42 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	John Keeping <john@...ping.me.uk>
Cc:	Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Mark Yao <mark.yao@...k-chips.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: Call drm_encoder_cleanup() in
 error path

On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:11:16PM +0000, John Keeping wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 03:22:01PM -0800, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > The drm_encoder_cleanup() was missing both from the error path of
> > dw_hdmi_rockchip_bind().  This caused a crash when slub_debug was
> > enabled and we ended up deferring probe of HDMI at boot.
> > 
> > This call isn't needed from unbind() because if dw_hdmi_bind() returns
> > no error then it takes over the job of freeing the encoder (in
> > dw_hdmi_unbind).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> > ---
> 
> Does dw_hdmi-imx need a similar change?  I wonder if it would be cleaner
> to push this into dw_hdmi_bind() if it affects all of the platforms..

I don't think moving it there would make sense - keep the initialisation
and cleanup together in the same file so that it's contained together.

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