On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 04:13:30PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> This is a follow-up to the plane and CRTC reset removal series, and
> part of a larger effort to remove the reset hook from all KMS objects.
> 
> The connector reset hook is overloaded: it is called both at probe
> time to create the initial software state and during suspend/resume to
> reset hardware and software state. These two roles have different
> requirements, and the reset hook is not fallible, making error
> handling difficult for the initial state allocation path.
> 
> While reset has the semantics to reset both the software and hardware
> state, the vast majority of implementations and all the helpers only
> reset the software state, making them equivalent to
> atomic_create_state in practice. The atomic_create_state hook makes
> this explicit: it only allocates and initializes a pristine state
> without any side effect, and returns the state pointer or an ERR_PTR
> on failure.
> 
> This series converts all connector drivers tree-wide from the reset hook
> to atomic_create_state, then removes the reset hook from struct
> drm_connector_funcs entirely. The conversions were done using a
> combination of Coccinelle semantic patches, mechanical one-line
> replacements and manual adjustments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Applied to drm-misc-next

Maxime