Commit 700496fa authored by Daniel Vetter's avatar Daniel Vetter

drm/todo: Add entry to remove load/unload hooks

They're midlayer, broken, and because of the old gunk, we can't fix
them. For examples see the various checks in drm_mode_object.c against
dev->registered, which cannot be enforced if the driver still uses the
load hook.

Unfortunately our biggest driver still uses load/unload, so this would
be really great to get fixed.

Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191023144953.28190-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
parent ab4e6933
......@@ -351,6 +351,23 @@ connector register/unregister fixes
Level: Intermediate
Remove load/unload callbacks from all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers
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The load/unload callbacks in struct &drm_driver are very much midlayers, plus
for historical reasons they get the ordering wrong (and we can't fix that)
between setting up the &drm_driver structure and calling drm_dev_register().
- Rework drivers to no longer use the load/unload callbacks, directly coding the
load/unload sequence into the driver's probe function.
- Once all non-DRIVER_LEGACY drivers are converted, disallow the load/unload
callbacks for all modern drivers.
Contact: Daniel Vetter
Level: Intermediate
Core refactorings
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