Subject: [RFC PATCH v4 6/8] drm/bridge/analogix: Do not use device's drvdata

From: [email-masked] (Jingoo Han)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:43:56 -0400

On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:16 AM, Jeffy Chen wrote:
> 
> From: Tomasz Figa <[email-masked]>
> 
> The driver that instantiates the bridge should own the drvdata, as all
> driver model callbacks (probe, remove, shutdown, PM ops, etc.) are also
> owned by its driver struct. Moreover, storing two different pointer
> types in driver data depending on driver initialization status is barely
> a good practice and in fact has led to many bugs in this driver.
> 
> Let's clean up this mess and change Analogix entry points to simply
> accept some opaque struct pointer, adjusting their users at the same
> time to avoid breaking the compilation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Jingoo Han <[email-masked]>

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

> ---
> 
> Changes in v4: None
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/analogix/analogix_dp_core.c | 50 +++++++++--------
> -----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_dp.c                 | 26 ++++++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/analogix_dp-rockchip.c    | 47
+++++++++++-------
> --
>  include/drm/bridge/analogix_dp.h                   | 19 ++++----
>  4 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
>