Re: [PATCH 10/13] fbdev: allow apertures == NULL in remove_conflicting_framebuffers()

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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:53:33PM +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Interpret (otherwise-invalid) NULL apertures argument to mean all-memory
> range. This will allow to remove several duplicates of this code from
> drivers in following patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> index 5ea980e5d3b7..927e016487e9 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> @@ -1780,11 +1780,25 @@ int remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct apertures_struct *a,
>  				    const char *name, bool primary)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> +	bool do_free = false;
> +
> +	if (!a) {
> +		a = alloc_apertures(1);
> +		if (!a)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +		a->ranges[0].base = 0;
> +		a->ranges[0].size = ~0;
> +		do_free = true;
> +	}
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
>  	ret = do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(a, name, primary);
>  	mutex_unlock(&registration_lock);
>  
> +	if (do_free)
> +		kfree(a);
> +
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_conflicting_framebuffers);

Please also update the kerneldoc for the varios drm wrappers and explain
that passing NULL means to remove all fbdev drivers.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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