On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com> wrote: > I have a slightly uneasy feeling about handing out drm_panel pointers > (both from here and of_drm_find_panel) without refcounting. If the panel > driver gets removed, whoever called the find functions will have a > dangling pointer. I supposed this will be discussed on drm-devel.
There's been some discussion already about exactly this problem (but with drm bridges) with Thierry and some other people. Cc'ed them all hopefully. Especially when the panel/bridge is a separate driver there's imo indeed an issue. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
