From: Thomas Zimmermann Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:12:22 +0000 (+0100) Subject: drm: Add TODO item for requesting memory regions X-Git-Tag: microblaze-v5.19~115^2~24^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.monstr.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb7eb3b19f198b704feb13cc38067db4104961a4;p=linux-2.6-microblaze.git drm: Add TODO item for requesting memory regions Add a TODO item about requesting memory regions for each driver. The current DRM drivers don't do this consistently. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220125091222.21457-6-tzimmermann@suse.de --- diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index da138dd39883..1b2372ef4131 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -467,6 +467,21 @@ Contact: Thomas Zimmermann Level: Intermediate +Request memory regions in all drivers +------------------------------------- + +Go through all drivers and add code to request the memory regions that the +driver uses. This requires adding calls to request_mem_region(), +pci_request_region() or similar functions. Use helpers for managed cleanup +where possible. + +Drivers are pretty bad at doing this and there used to be conflicts among +DRM and fbdev drivers. Still, it's the correct thing to do. + +Contact: Thomas Zimmermann + +Level: Starter + Core refactorings =================