releases/6.16.2/drm-fbdev-client-skip-drm-clients-if-modesetting-is-.patch

From 8a35201dace6851c7b10fabda1c660c4762e1ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:28:38 +0200
Subject: drm/fbdev-client: Skip DRM clients if modesetting is absent

From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

[ Upstream commit cce91f29c088ba902dd2abfc9c3216ba9a2fb2fe ]

Recent generations of Tegra have moved the display components outside of
host1x, leading to a device that has no CRTCs attached and hence doesn't
support any of the modesetting functionality. When this is detected, the
driver clears the DRIVER_MODESET and DRIVER_ATOMIC flags for the device.

Unfortunately, this causes the following errors during boot:

    [      15.418958] ERR KERN drm drm: [drm] *ERROR* Failed to register client: -95
    [      15.425311] WARNING KERN drm drm: [drm] Failed to set up DRM client; error -95

These originate from the fbdev client checking for the presence of the
DRIVER_MODESET flag and returning -EOPNOTSUPP. However, if a driver does
not support DRIVER_MODESET this is entirely expected and the error isn't
helpful.

Prevent this misleading error message by setting up the DRM clients only
if modesetting is enabled.

Changes in v2:
- use DRIVER_MODESET check to avoid registering any clients

Reported-by: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250613122838.2082334-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_client_setup.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_client_setup.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_client_setup.c
index e17265039ca8..e460ad354de2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_client_setup.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_client_setup.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #include <drm/clients/drm_client_setup.h>
 #include <drm/drm_device.h>
+#include <drm/drm_drv.h>
 #include <drm/drm_fourcc.h>
 #include <drm/drm_print.h>
 
@@ -31,6 +32,10 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(active,
  */
 void drm_client_setup(struct drm_device *dev, const struct drm_format_info *format)
 {
+	if (!drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) {
+		drm_dbg(dev, "driver does not support mode-setting, skipping DRM clients\n");
+		return;
+	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION
 	if (!strcmp(drm_client_default, "fbdev")) {
-- 
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