[PATCH 1/2] drm/imx: parallel-display: convert to devm_drm_bridge_alloc() API

Ernest Van Hoecke ernestvanhoecke at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 04:57:18 PDT 2025


On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 01:30:51PM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> This is the new API for allocating DRM bridges.
> 
> This conversion was missed during the initial conversion of all bridges to
> the new API. Thus all kernels with commit 94d50c1a2ca3 ("drm/bridge:
> get/put the bridge reference in drm_bridge_attach/detach()") and using this
> driver now warn due to drm_bridge_attach() incrementing the refcount, which
> is not initialized without using devm_drm_bridge_alloc() for allocation.
> 
> To make the conversion simple and straightforward without messing up with
> the drmm_simple_encoder_alloc(), move the struct drm_bridge from struct
> imx_parallel_display_encoder to struct imx_parallel_display.
> 
> Also remove the 'struct imx_parallel_display *pd' from struct
> imx_parallel_display_encoder, not needed anymore.
> 
> Fixes: 94d50c1a2ca3 ("drm/bridge: get/put the bridge reference in drm_bridge_attach/detach()")
> Reported-by: Ernest Van Hoecke <ernestvanhoecke at gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/hlf4wdopapxnh4rekl5s3kvoi6egaga3lrjfbx6r223ar3txri@3ik53xw5idyh/
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com>

Applying fixed all the WARNING regressions I saw before, thanks!

Tested-by: Ernest Van Hoecke <ernest.vanhoecke at toradex.com>

Kind regards,
Ernest



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