On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 09:44:23AM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Am Freitag, 21. Februar 2025, 07:14:07 MEZ schrieb Greg KH: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:41:40AM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote: > > > The component helpers already expose the bound status in debugfs, but at > > > times it might be necessary to also check that state in the kernel and > > > act differently depending on the result. > > > > > > For example the shutdown handler of a drm-driver might need to stop > > > a whole output pipeline if the drm device is up and running, but may > > > run into problems if that drm-device has never been set up before, > > > for example because the binding deferred. > > > > > > So add a little helper that returns the bound status for a componet > > > device. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > drivers/base/component.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ > > > include/linux/component.h | 4 +++- > > > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > just for safety and not stepping on people's toes, does the Acked-by mean > that this patch can go together with its user through the drm-misc tree? Yup, merge away!
