Hello Osama,
On Tue Sep 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM CEST, Osama Abdelkader wrote:
> Use the managed panel add helper in panel-simple and drop the manual
> panel remove call from the remove path.
>
> Keep the MIPI DSI attach and detach manual, since panel-simple's
> remove callback also unprepares/disables the panel and releases the
> DDC adapter; deferring the detach to devm would run it after that
> cleanup instead of before, changing the teardown order.
>
> Suggested-by: Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <[email protected]>
Thanks for continuing the cleanup.
However there is still some confusion in how you are sending patch series:
* You sent the patches to various recipients including mailing lists
(which is OK), but did not send the cover letter to mailing lists. I got
the cover and it only has me in To: and nobody in Cc:.
* You sent two iterations the same day without an explanation; this is
normally a confusing behaviour, which makes sense only rarely and for a
very good reason which is clearly explained in reply to the previous
revision (e.g. "sorry, this series is broken, ignore it, sending a fixed
one very soon")
* The panel-simple patch disappeared in v6, why? (see next question)
* The Changelog for v6 (not visible on mailing lists) is overly verbose,
so I didn't even try reading it. Please use oneliners or so. And in case
you did, don't uncritically copy-paste AI slop. Think about your readers
and te minimum info they need.
I think I already suggested using b4 to send your patches, which would
handle the mechanical aspects for you. It prevent issues like the first
bullet above.
Can you please send a v7 with the above fixed, as well as the changelog
made concise (including the v5 and v6 entries)? I'll be glad to review
that.
Kind regards,
Luca
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c | 15 ++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
> index c95964ba25a9..02d21dde5766 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
> @@ -737,7 +737,9 @@ static struct panel_simple *panel_simple_probe(struct
> device *dev)
> goto disable_pm_runtime;
> }
>
> - drm_panel_add(&panel->base);
> + err = devm_drm_panel_add(dev, &panel->base);
> + if (err)
> + goto disable_pm_runtime;
>
> return panel;
>
> @@ -785,7 +787,6 @@ static void panel_simple_remove(struct device *dev)
> {
> struct panel_simple *panel = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>
> - drm_panel_remove(&panel->base);
> panel_simple_shutdown(dev);
>
> pm_runtime_dont_use_autosuspend(dev);
> @@ -6540,7 +6541,6 @@ static int panel_simple_dsi_probe(struct
> mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
> {
> const struct panel_desc_dsi *desc;
> struct panel_simple *panel;
> - int err;
>
> panel = panel_simple_probe(&dsi->dev);
> if (IS_ERR(panel))
> @@ -6551,14 +6551,7 @@ static int panel_simple_dsi_probe(struct
> mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
> dsi->format = desc->format;
> dsi->lanes = desc->lanes;
>
> - err = mipi_dsi_attach(dsi);
> - if (err) {
> - struct panel_simple *panel = mipi_dsi_get_drvdata(dsi);
> -
> - drm_panel_remove(&panel->base);
> - }
> -
> - return err;
> + return mipi_dsi_attach(dsi);
> }
>
> static void panel_simple_dsi_remove(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
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Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
