From: Anusha Srivatsa <asrivats@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:15:27 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: drm/panel: deprecate old-style panel allocation
X-Git-Tag: v6.16-rc1~144^2~21^2~77
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5a635f58e4b9cc5d471c67955d02de306b6b27d;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

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>
---

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c
index 7b17531d85a4d..870bf8d471ee9 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)
 {