Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] drm: Move struct drm_device.pdev to legacy

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> V7 of the patchset fixes some bitrot in the intel driver.
>
> The pdev field in struct drm_device points to a PCI device structure and
> goes back to UMS-only days when all DRM drivers were for PCI devices.
> Meanwhile we also support USB, SPI and platform devices. Each of those
> uses the generic device stored in struct drm_device.dev.
>
> To reduce duplication and remove the special case of PCI, this patchset
> converts all modesetting drivers from pdev to dev and makes pdev a field
> for legacy UMS drivers.
>
> For PCI devices, the pointer in struct drm_device.dev can be upcasted to
> struct pci_device; or tested for PCI with dev_is_pci(). In several places
> the code can use the dev field directly.
>
> After converting all drivers and the DRM core, the pdev fields becomes
> only relevant for legacy drivers. In a later patchset, we may want to
> convert these as well and remove pdev entirely.

On the series,

Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>

How should we merge these?



>
> v7:
> 	* fix instances of pdev that have benn added under i915/
> v6:
> 	* also remove assignment in i915/selftests in later patch (Chris)
> v5:
> 	* remove assignment in later patch (Chris)
> v4:
> 	* merged several patches
> 	* moved core changes into separate patch
> 	* vmwgfx build fix
> v3:
> 	* merged several patches
> 	* fix one pdev reference in nouveau (Jeremy)
> 	* rebases
> v2:
> 	* move whitespace fixes into separate patches (Alex, Sam)
> 	* move i915 gt/ and gvt/ changes into separate patches (Joonas)
>
> Thomas Zimmermann (4):
>   drm/i915/gt: Remove reference to struct drm_device.pdev
>   drm/i915: Remove reference to struct drm_device.pdev
>   drm/i915: Don't assign to struct drm_device.pdev
>   drm: Move struct drm_device.pdev to legacy section
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_region_lmem.c      | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c                  | 1 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.h          | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gem_device.c | 1 -
>  include/drm/drm_device.h                         | 6 +++---
>  5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
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