Hi, On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:29:43PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote: > This adds a devm managed version of drm_bridge_add(). Like other > "devm" function listed in drm_bridge.h, this function takes an > explicit "dev" to use for the lifetime management. A few notes: > * In general we have a "struct device" for bridges that makes a good > candidate for where the lifetime matches exactly what we want. > * The "bridge->dev->dev" device appears to be the encoder > device. That's not the right device to use for lifetime management. > > Suggested-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.barysh...@linaro.org> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
If we are to introduce more managed helpers, I think it'd be wiser to introduce them as DRM-managed, and not device managed. Otherwise, you'll end up in a weird state when a device has been removed but the DRM device is still around. Maxime
