On Mi, 2022-06-29 at 14:34 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > The DRM-managed function to register an encoder is > drmm_encoder_alloc() and its variants, which will allocate the underlying > structure and initialisation the encoder. > > However, we might want to separate the structure creation and the encoder > initialisation, for example if the structure is shared across multiple DRM > entities, for example an encoder and a connector. > > Let's create an helper to only initialise an encoder that would be passed > as an argument. Daniel pointed out here [1], that it might be good to check the passed encoders are actually in drmm managed memory. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/CAKMK7uGaAtk4AY5y=jbC7nDduRYFBfLSdHE8wykJ602Lk-3n+Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ regards Philipp
