On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 03:32:12PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote: > 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. Yeah that's a good idea. I thought about it, but I have no idea how we can even tell from a pointer if it's drmm managed? Maxime
