Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm/rockchip: Unregister platform drivers in reverse order

From: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com>
To: "Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>,
	"Sandy Huang" <hjc@rock-chips.com>,
	"Andy Yan" <andy.yan@rock-chips.com>,
	"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	"Sean Paul" <seanpaul@chromium.org>,
	"Jeffy Chen" <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>,
	"Andrzej Hajda" <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>,
	"Mark Yao" <markyao0591@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm/rockchip: Unregister platform drivers in reverse order
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:26:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80ffed99-7368-4f84-8dc9-4c980055e48d@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9027071.qdD9tO9HgI@diego>

On 8/15/24 5:21 PM, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 8. August 2024, 13:58:02 CEST schrieb Cristian Ciocaltea:
>> Move rockchip_drm_platform_driver unregistration after its sub-drivers,
>> which ensures all drivers are unregistered in the reverse order used
>> when they were registered.
> 
> are you sure about that?
> 
> I.e. currently rockchip_drm_init() does 
>   platform_register_drivers(rockchip_sub_drivers, ...)
> to register the sub-drivers and only after that registers the main
> drm-platform-driver
> 
> rockchip_drm_fini currently does the reverse of first unregistering the
> main drm-platform-driver and after that unregistering the array of sub-
> drivers.
> 
> 
> So as it stands right now, rockchip_drm_fini does already do exactly the
> reverse when de-registering.

Indeed, somehow I overlooked this while debugging some module unloading
issues.  I guess it just felt more naturally to have the subdrivers
unregistered first.

Out of curiosity to see if there's a common pattern for handling this, I
found that most drivers do indeed unregister the subdrivers before the main
platform one, but weirdly enough, some of them do also keep the same order
on registration, similarily to what this patch unintentionally does:

  drivers/power/supply/ab8500_charger.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/mcde/mcde_drv.c

Not sure if those are potential mistakes, or maybe it doesn't really matter?!

Please let me know if you have a preference for it, and I'll update the
patch accordingly, otherwise let's just ignore it altogether.

Thanks,
Cristian

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