linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix handling of incorrect arguments by mipi_dsi

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:36:49 +0200
From: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
To: quic_jesszhan@...cinc.com, Tejas Vipin <tejasvipin76@...il.com>
Cc: maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, mripard@...nel.org, 
 tzimmermann@...e.de, airlied@...il.com, daniel@...ll.ch, 
 linus.walleij@...aro.org, dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org, 
 dianders@...omium.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix handling of incorrect arguments by
 mipi_dsi_msleep

Hi,

On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:05:41 +0530, Tejas Vipin wrote:
> mipi_dsi_msleep is currently defined such that it treats ctx as an
> argument passed by value. In the case of ctx being passed by
> reference, it doesn't raise an error, but instead evaluates the
> resulting expression in an undesired manner. Since the majority of the
> usage of this function passes ctx by reference (similar to
> other functions), mipi_dsi_msleep can be modified to treat ctx as a
> pointer and do it correctly, and the other calls to this macro can be
> adjusted accordingly.
> 
> [...]

Thanks, Applied to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git (drm-misc-next)

[1/2] drm/panel : himax-hx83102: fix incorrect argument to mipi_dsi_msleep
      https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel/-/commit/a13aaf157467e694a3824d81304106b58d4c20d6
[2/2] drm/mipi-dsi: fix handling of ctx in mipi_dsi_msleep
      https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel/-/commit/66055636a146c435cd226fb5a334176304652f3c

-- 
Neil