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    drm/panel: Check for already prepared/enabled in drm_panel · d2aacaf0
    Douglas Anderson authored
    In a whole pile of panel drivers, we have code to make the
    prepare/unprepare/enable/disable callbacks behave as no-ops if they've
    already been called. It's silly to have this code duplicated
    everywhere. Add it to the core instead so that we can eventually
    delete it from all the drivers. Note: to get some idea of the
    duplicated code, try:
      git grep 'if.*>prepared' -- drivers/gpu/drm/panel
      git grep 'if.*>enabled' -- drivers/gpu/drm/panel
    
    NOTE: arguably, the right thing to do here is actually to skip this
    patch and simply remove all the extra checks from the individual
    drivers. Perhaps the checks were needed at some point in time in the
    past but maybe they no longer are? Certainly as we continue
    transitioning over to "panel_bridge" then we expect there to be much
    less variety in how these calls are made. When we're called as part of
    the bridge chain, things should be pretty simple. In fact, there was
    some discussion in the past about these checks [1], including a
    discussion about whether the checks were needed and whether the calls
    ought to be refcounted. At the time, I decided not to mess with it
    because it felt too risky.
    
    Looking closer at it now, I'm fairly certain that nothing in the
    existing codebase is expecting these calls to be refcounted. The only
    real question is whether someone is already doing something to ensure
    prepare()/unprepare() match and enabled()/disable() match. I would say
    that, even if there is something else ensuring that things match,
    there's enough complexity that adding an extra bool and an extra
    double-check here is a good idea. Let's add a drm_warn() to let people
    know that it's considered a minor error to take advantage of
    drm_panel's double-checking but we'll still make things work fine.
    
    We'll also add an entry to the official DRM todo list to remove the
    now pointless check from the panels after this patch lands and,
    eventually, fixup anyone who is triggering the new warning.
    
    [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210416153909.v4.27.I502f2a92ddd36c3d28d014dd75e170c2d405a0a5@changeidAcked-by: default avatarNeil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMaxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230727101636.v4.2.I59b417d4c29151cc2eff053369ec4822b606f375@changeid
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