linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 24/24] drm/bridge: establish a link between the bridge supplier and consumer

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Date:   Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:12:56 +0200
From:   Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...labora.co.uk>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...labora.com>,
        Martin Donnelly <martin.donnelly@...com>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, Jyri Sarha <jsarha@...com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Vincent Abriou <vincent.abriou@...com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>,
        linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/24] drm/bridge: establish a link between the bridge
 supplier and consumer

On 2018-04-30 17:32, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:31:39AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> If the bridge supplier is unbound, this will bring the bridge consumer
>> down along with the bridge. Thus, there will no longer linger any
>> dangling pointers from the bridge consumer (the drm_device) to some
>> non-existent bridge supplier.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
> 
> Minus the ->owner bikeshed I brought up in the previous patch I agree with
> this approach as the best way to move forward for now.
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>

Thanks, let's see if Laurent is also on-board...

> One small suggestion below, for merging I'd say pls get Jyri's
> review/tested-by too, since you're both working on the same problem it
> seems.

Yes, I too would be very happy to see a tested-by from someone.

> Aside: Do you want commit rights to drm-misc to be able to push work like
> this?

If that makes life easier, sure.

Cheers,
Peter