bug in autoloading of imx-ipuv3-crtc

[u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 03:16:01PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 2:27:17 PM CDT Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 7:50:49 PM CDT Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 01:34:23PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > > on all of my i.MX6 systems imx-ipuv3-crtc ius not getting automatically
> > > > loaded.  Everything is built as a module
> > > > 
> > > > CONFIG_DRM_IMX=m
> > > > CONFIG_DRM_IMX_FB_HELPER=m
> > > > CONFIG_DRM_IMX_HDMI=m
> > > > CONFIG_DRM_IMX_IPUV3=m
> > > > CONFIG_DRM_IMX_LDB=m
> > > > CONFIG_DRM_IMX_PARALLEL_DISPLAY=m
> > > > CONFIG_DRM_IMX_TVE=m
> > > > CONFIG_IMX_IPUV3_CORE=m
> > > > 
> > > > The result is that until I log in via serial or ssh and modprobe the
> > > > module there is no display.  I suspect that there is some devicetree
> > > > glue missing 4.4 and 4.5 seem to both be effected.
> > > 
> > > DT doesn't come into it for imx-ipuv3-crtc - these platform devices are
> > > created by drivers/gpu/ipu-v3/ipu-common.c itself.
> > > 
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/imx/ipuv3-crtc.c contains the proper module alias which
> > > should result in the module loaded at boot time when the imx-ipuv3-crtc
> > > devices are created.
> > > 
> > > Could the problem be that imx-ipu-v3 isn't being loaded?  However, again,
> > > it looks to me like everything is correct there.
> > > 
> > > Are you saying that this used to work in older kernel versions like 4.3,
> > > but stopped in 4.4?
> > 
> > yers it used to work and stopped working. I would need to go back and test
> > old kernels to figure out where it broke.
> 
> after installing some old kernels it broke with 4.4-rc4 which included a patch 
> with teh subject of "drm/imx: Remove of_node assignment from ipuv3-crtc driver 
> probe"

Just to be sure: 4.4-rc4 with 407c9eba7897 ("drm/imx: Remove of_node
assignment from ipuv3-crtc driver probe") reverted works fine for you?

Best regards
Uwe

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