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authorAnusha Srivatsa <asrivats@redhat.com>2025-03-31 11:15:27 -0400
committerMaxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>2025-04-01 16:58:05 +0200
commitc5a635f58e4b9cc5d471c67955d02de306b6b27d (patch)
tree976f0d6f9e334fe91de8b7ea982c6649621f7784
parentdcba396f69073d4ea8c04374fdd207e67e5b5a94 (diff)
drm/panel: deprecate old-style panel allocation
Start moving to the new refcounted allocations using the new API devm_drm_panel_alloc(). Deprecate any other allocation. Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com> Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Anusha Srivatsa <asrivats@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250331-b4-panel-refcounting-v4-3-dad50c60c6c9@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
index 7b17531d85a4..870bf8d471ee 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ 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().
*/
void drm_panel_add(struct drm_panel *panel)
{