diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 2734b8a34541..2ea6ffc9b22b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -469,30 +469,35 @@ Contact: Thomas Zimmermann Level: Starter -Clean up checks for already prepared/enabled in panels ------------------------------------------------------- +Remove disable/unprepare in remove/shutdown in panel-simple and panel-edp +------------------------------------------------------------------------- -In a whole pile of panel drivers, we have code to make the -prepare/unprepare/enable/disable callbacks behave as no-ops if they've already -been called. To get some idea of the duplicated code, try:: +As of commit d2aacaf07395 ("drm/panel: Check for already prepared/enabled in +drm_panel"), we have a check in the drm_panel core to make sure nobody +double-calls prepare/enable/disable/unprepare. Eventually that should probably +be turned into a WARN_ON() or somehow made louder, but right now we actually +expect it to trigger and so we don't want it to be too loud. - git grep 'if.*>prepared' -- drivers/gpu/drm/panel - git grep 'if.*>enabled' -- drivers/gpu/drm/panel +Specifically, that warning will trigger for panel-edp and panel-simple at +shutdown time because those panels hardcode a call to drm_panel_disable() +and drm_panel_unprepare() at shutdown and remove time that they call regardless +of panel state. On systems with a properly coded DRM modeset driver that +calls drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() this is pretty much guaranteed to cause +the warning to fire. -In the patch ("drm/panel: Check for already prepared/enabled in drm_panel") -we've moved this check to the core. Now we can most definitely remove the -check from the individual panels and save a pile of code. - -In adition to removing the check from the individual panels, it is believed -that even the core shouldn't need this check and that should be considered -an error if other code ever relies on this check. The check in the core -currently prints a warning whenever something is relying on this check with -dev_warn(). After a little while, we likely want to promote this to a -WARN(1) to help encourage folks not to rely on this behavior. +Unfortunately we can't safely remove the calls in panel-edp and panel-simple +until we're sure that all DRM modeset drivers that are used with those panels +properly call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(). This TODO item is to validate +that all DRM modeset drivers used with panel-edp and panel-simple properly +call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() and then remove the calls to +disable/unprepare from those panels. Alternatively, this TODO item could be +removed by convincing stakeholders that those calls are fine and downgrading +the error message in drm_panel_disable() / drm_panel_unprepare() to a +debug-level message. Contact: Douglas Anderson -Level: Starter/Intermediate +Level: Intermediate Transition away from using mipi_dsi_*_write_seq() -------------------------------------------------