Hi Daniel. > > > Also with drmm_ explicit drm_driver->release hooks are kinda not the > > > best option, so deprecate that hook to discourage future users. > > The ->release hooks has others uses until everything is moved over to > > drmm_, or so I think. So deprecation seems a lttle too soon. > > You can just add a drmm action which calls your release function. The > upshot is that you can be more fine-grained (useful for unwinding when > driver load fails halfway through). That's why I think new drivers > after this patch shouldn't use ->release anymore, it's strictly less > useful than drmm actions. The less unwind code I have to review > carefully to make sure the right stuff gets released (and not more!) > the better. >From that perspective I agree - gently pushing people to use drmm_ is only good. Sam _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
