Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] drm/vkms: convert to use faux_device

Lyude Paul
2025-02-06T20:03:48Z

Lol, I wrote up a patch for this last night but it looks like you got here
first :P

On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 18:38 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The vkms driver does not need to create a platform device, as there is
> no real platform resources associated it, it only did so because it was
> simple to do that in order to get a device to use for resource
> management of drm resources. Change the driver to use the faux device
> instead as this is NOT a real platform device.
>
> Cc: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
> Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@gmail.com>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> v3: new patch in the series. For an example of the api working, does
> not have to be merged at this time, but I can take it if the
> maintainers give an ack.
> drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
> drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> index e0409aba9349..b1269f984886 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> */
>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> -#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +#include <linux/device/faux.h>
> #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
>
> #include <drm/clients/drm_client_setup.h>
> @@ -177,25 +177,25 @@ static int vkms_modeset_init(struct vkms_device *vkmsdev)
> static int vkms_create(struct vkms_config *config)
> {
> int ret;
> - struct platform_device *pdev;
> + struct faux_device *fdev;
> struct vkms_device *vkms_device;
>
> - pdev = platform_device_register_simple(DRIVER_NAME, -1, NULL, 0);
> - if (IS_ERR(pdev))
> - return PTR_ERR(pdev);
> + fdev = faux_device_create(DRIVER_NAME, NULL);
> + if (!fdev)
> + return -ENODEV;
>
> - if (!devres_open_group(&pdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> + if (!devres_open_group(&fdev->dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto out_unregister;
> }
>
> - vkms_device = devm_drm_dev_alloc(&pdev->dev, &vkms_driver,
> + vkms_device = devm_drm_dev_alloc(&fdev->dev, &vkms_driver,
> struct vkms_device, drm);
> if (IS_ERR(vkms_device)) {
> ret = PTR_ERR(vkms_device);
> goto out_devres;
> }
> - vkms_device->platform = pdev;
> + vkms_device->faux_dev = fdev;
> vkms_device->config = config;
> config->dev = vkms_device;
>
> @@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ static int vkms_create(struct vkms_config *config)
> return 0;
>
> out_devres:
> - devres_release_group(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> + devres_release_group(&fdev->dev, NULL);
> out_unregister:
> - platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> + faux_device_destroy(fdev);
> return ret;
> }
>
> @@ -259,19 +259,19 @@ static int __init vkms_init(void)
>
> static void vkms_destroy(struct vkms_config *config)
> {
> - struct platform_device *pdev;
> + struct faux_device *fdev;
>
> if (!config->dev) {
> DRM_INFO("vkms_device is NULL.\n");
> return;
> }
>
> - pdev = config->dev->platform;
> + fdev = config->dev->faux_dev;
>
> drm_dev_unregister(&config->dev->drm);
> drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(&config->dev->drm);
> - devres_release_group(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> - platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> + devres_release_group(&fdev->dev, NULL);
> + faux_device_destroy(fdev);
>
> config->dev = NULL;
> }
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h
> index 00541eff3d1b..4668b0e29a84 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h
> @@ -209,13 +209,13 @@ struct vkms_config {
> * struct vkms_device - Description of a VKMS device
> *
> * @drm - Base device in DRM
> - * @platform - Associated platform device
> + * @faux_dev- Associated faux device

Small nitpick - you dropped the space on the - here by mistake

With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>

> * @output - Configuration and sub-components of the VKMS device
> * @config: Configuration used in this VKMS device
> */
> struct vkms_device {
> struct drm_device drm;
> - struct platform_device *platform;
> + struct faux_device *faux_dev;
> struct vkms_output output;
> const struct vkms_config *config;
> };

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Cheers,
Lyude Paul (she/her)
Software Engineer at Red Hat

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