Re: [PATCH 00/60] drm: Make all drivers to honour the nomodeset parameter

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Javier,

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 01:13:56AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Laurent,
> 
> On 12/16/21 00:35, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >>
> >> I've built tested with 'make allmodconfig && make M=drivers/gpu/drm/', but
> >> only booted in a few devices with and without nomodeset in the cmdline. So
> >> testing and reviewing for all the drivers would be highly appreciated.
> > 
> > The fact that the series is so big makes me think it would be better to
> > handle this in the DRM core. Is there any way we could do so ? Otherwise
> > we'll chase this issue forever in new drivers, and will be plagued with
> > cargo cult problems.
> > 
> 
> Yes, what Thomas suggested is to add a set of drm_module_{pci,platform}_driver()
> macros in include/drm/drm_drv.h, that will just check whether the driver should
> be registered or not and call the {pci,platform}_register_driver() functions.
> 
> That way the change in the drivers would just be something like the following:
> 
> -module_platform_driver(malidp_platform_driver);
> +drm_module_platform_driver(malidp_platform_driver);
> 
> There are some drivers that still need a custom module init functions for various
> reasons (e.g: register a set of devices/drivers, need to be a late init call, etc)
> but at least for most drivers this should be handled transparently as long as they
> use these drm_*_register_driver() macros.

Another option could be to return an error from drm_dev_alloc(). That
may avoid changes in the drivers.

> So just ignore this series and I'll post a v2 soon.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart