Re: [PATCH] drm/panel: Avoid warnings w/ panel-simple/panel-edp at shutdown

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 09:52:40AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Sima,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 8:13 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > > I ran the coccinelle script we started with, and here are the results:
> > > >
> > > > ./drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c:1640:25-39: ERROR: KMS driver vmw_pci_driver is missing shutdown implementation
> > > > ./drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/kmb_drv.c:621:30-49: ERROR: KMS driver kmb_platform_driver is missing shutdown implementation
> > > > ./drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/arcpgu.c:422:30-52: ERROR: KMS driver arcpgu_platform_driver is missing shutdown implementation
> > >
> > > Sure, although I think we agreed even back when we talked about this
> > > last that your coccinelle script wasn't guaranteed to catch every
> > > driver. ...so I guess the question is: are we willing to accept that
> > > we'll stop disabling panels at shutdown for any drivers that might
> > > were missed. For instance, looking at it by hand (which also could
> > > miss things), I previously thought that we also might need:
> > >
> > > * nouveau
> > > * tegra
> > > * amdgpu
> > > * sprd
> > > * gma500
> > > * radeon
> > >
> > > I sent patches for those drivers but they don't go through drm-misc
> > > and some of the drivers had a lot of abstraction layers and were hard
> > > to reason about. I'm also not 100% confident that all of those drivers
> > > really are affected--they'd have to be used with panel-simple or
> > > panel-edp...
> >
> > Aside from amdgpu and radeon they're all in -misc now, and Alex is
> > generally fairly responsive.
> 
> Sorry for not keeping up with things, but can you point to where this
> was documented or what patch changed things so that these drivers went
> through drm-misc? From the MAINTAINERS file I see commit 5a44d50f0072
> ("MAINTAINERS: Update drm-misc entry to match all drivers") and that
> shows several of these drivers as "X:". As far as I can tell that
> means that they _aren't_ handled by drm-misc, right? Maybe the
> decision was made elsewhere and MAINTAINERS was just not updated, or
> I'm not looking at the right place? I checked drm-misc-next and
> drm/next and, for instance, "tegra" and "kmb" still show as excluded.

Hm tegra moved meanwhile, but I guess it's not yet update in MAINTAINERS
(or not everywhere), at least for bugfixes. I think nouveau also has
partially moved?

Anyway past a certain point of unresponsiveness, drm-misc serves as the
catch-all for everything and you can land with an ack from drm or drm-misc
maintainers.
-Sima
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch