On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 01:24:11PM -0400, Anusha Srivatsa wrote: > Start moving to the new refcounted allocations using > the new API devm_drm_panel_alloc(). Deprecate any other > allocation. > > Signed-off-by: Anusha Srivatsa <asriv...@redhat.com> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c > index > 11a0415bc61f59190ef5eb378d1583c493265e6a..5793011f4938a2d4fb9d84a700817bda317af305 > 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c > @@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_panel_init); > * drm_panel_add - add a panel to the global registry > * @panel: panel to add > * > - * Add a panel to the global registry so that it can be looked up by display > - * drivers. > + * Add a panel to the global registry so that it can be looked > + * up by display drivers. The panel to be added must have been > + * allocated by devm_drm_panel_alloc(). Old-style allocation by > + * kzalloc(), devm_kzalloc() and similar is deprecated.
It's not that it's deprecated, it's that it's unsafe. Since you already said that the allocation must be done through devm_drm_panel_alloc(), there's not much use to mention the old style stuff, I'd just drop the last sentence. Maxime
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