On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 02:08:29PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:54:04PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:44:49PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > Actually, scrub that idea - drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes() > > > calls drm_edid_to_eld() for these cases anyway, so we must call > > > drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes() with the audio_mutex held. > > > > OK, so the lockdep warning is spurious? > > I don't think so. I think there's two ways to solve this: > > 1. replace the audio_mutex in tda998x_audio_get_eld() and > tda998x_connector_fill_modes() with a new mutex (eld_mutex) to > protect just the ELD. > > 2. remove the mutex from these two functions, and take the connection_mutex > modeset lock in tda998x_audio_get_eld(). > > However, I don't have a view on which would be best. If you don't mind, I took the liberty of picking option 2, just because I don't like adding new locks when existing ones might do the job. v2 patch on the way shortly. Best regards, Liviu > > -- > RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ > FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up > according to speedtest.net. -- ==================== | I would like to | | fix the world, | | but they're not | | giving me the | \ source code! / --------------- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
