diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
index 748df1cacd2b..0c79a9ba48bb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
@@ -2327,12 +2327,6 @@ static enum drm_connector_status dw_hdmi_detect(struct dw_hdmi *hdmi)
 {
 	enum drm_connector_status result;
 
-	mutex_lock(&hdmi->mutex);
-	hdmi->force = DRM_FORCE_UNSPECIFIED;
-	dw_hdmi_update_power(hdmi);
-	dw_hdmi_update_phy_mask(hdmi);
-	mutex_unlock(&hdmi->mutex);
-
 	result = hdmi->phy.ops->read_hpd(hdmi, hdmi->phy.data);
 
 	mutex_lock(&hdmi->mutex);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c
index 77497b45f9a2..55960cbb1019 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c
@@ -814,9 +814,15 @@ static int sun4i_backend_bind(struct device *dev, struct device *master,
 		 *
 		 * XXX(hch): this has no business in a driver and needs to move
 		 * to the device tree.
+		 *
+		 * If we have two subsequent calls to dma_direct_set_offset
+		 * returns -EINVAL. Unfortunately, this happens when we have two
+		 * backends in the system, and will result in the driver
+		 * reporting an error while it has been setup properly before.
+		 * Ignore EINVAL, but it should really be removed eventually.
 		 */
 		ret = dma_direct_set_offset(drm->dev, PHYS_OFFSET, 0, SZ_4G);
-		if (ret)
+		if (ret && ret != -EINVAL)
 			return ret;
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_dw_hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_dw_hdmi.c
index d4c08043dd81..92add2cef2e7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_dw_hdmi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_dw_hdmi.c
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ static int sun8i_dw_hdmi_bind(struct device *dev, struct device *master,
 	phy_node = of_parse_phandle(dev->of_node, "phys", 0);
 	if (!phy_node) {
 		dev_err(dev, "Can't found PHY phandle\n");
+		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto err_disable_clk_tmds;
 	}