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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/60] drm: Make all drivers to honour the nomodeset parameter
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Am 15.12.21 um 09:50 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> On 12/15/21 09:31, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> Hi Javier,
>>
>> nothing wrong with your patches, but I'd like to propose slightly
>> differnt solution.
>>
>> For many USB drivers, you put the drm_firmware_drivers_only() call into
>> the probe function. For registering, these drivers use
>> module_usb_driver(), which expands to generic device-register functions.
>>
>> I'd like to propose a similar macro for DRM drivers that includes the
>> test for drm_firmware_drivers_only().
>>
>> In drm_drv.h :
>>
>> #if defined(USB)
>> static int drm_usb_register(struct usb_driver *usb)
>> {
>> if (drm_firmware_drivers_only())
>> return -ENODEV;
>> return usb_register_driver(usb);
>> }
>> #define drm_module_usb_driver(__usb)
>> module_driver(drm_usb_register, usb_deregister)
>> #endif
>>
>> In each of the USB-based DRM drivers, replace module_usb_driver with
>> drm_module_usb_driver.
>>
>> And then there's PCI [3] and platform drivers, [4] which can be handled
>> similarly. Many PCI drivers open-code the module init and device
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I actually thought about this approach as well,
> since seems unnecessary to have all that duplicated logic in every driver.
>
> But at the end decided to just do the less intrusive change, because can't
> do any testing for most of the drivers.
>
>> registering with the driver-specific enable parameter. Maybe adding a
>> driver-specific register function would make sense.
>>
>
> If I understood you correctly, suggested something similar in #dri-devel but
> danvet's suggestion [0] was to keep it simple:
>
> 16:32 javierm: danvet: yes, I don't think we would be able to do it at this point. I'll add a function pointer
> param to the check function so drivers can also define their own check besides nomodeset
> 16:33 danvet: javierm, uh that sounds a bit like overkill? just keep that part of the check in drivers?
> 16:33 javierm: danvet: Ok. Wanted to get rid of the duplicated code but I'm indeed over engineering this :)

An extra pointer sounds indeed like over-engineering. If we take ast for
example, I'd just do something like this:

static ast_pci_register_driver(struct pci_driver *pci)
{
if (drm_firmware_drivers_only() && ast_modeset == -1)
return -ENODEV;
if (ast_modeset == 0)
return -ENODEV;

return pci_register_driver(pci);
}

module_driver(&ast_pci_driver, ast_pci_register_driver,
pci_unregister_driver)

That removes some of the boiler-plate module code without changing the
driver's behavior.

Best regards
Thomas

>
> [0]: https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=dri-devel&date=2021-11-02
>
>> Best regards
>> Thomas
>>
> Best regards,
>

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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
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