From: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
To: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com>,
Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@gmail.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@gmail.com>,
Leandro Ribeiro <leandro.ribeiro@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vkms: detect modes during output initialization
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 10:46:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201201104659.4c250d7b@eldfell> (raw)
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:20:08 +0000
Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> wrote:
> CC Daniel and Ville
>
> On Monday, November 30, 2020 12:24 PM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Please record the justitication for that patch in its commit message.
> > > > "Can't" does not explain anything.
> > >
> > > Yeah, sorry about that. I'm just annoyed by all of this get_connector
> > > uAPI, so I don't really want to spend a lot of time documenting why
> > > it's so gross.
> >
> > But I still don't understand why the kernel cannot be fixed to do the
> > right thing that most of us assumed it should be doing: probe
> > automatically so userspace never needs to.
>
> My understanding is that it could maybe be implemented this way, but
> that it's not the way it works right now. So someone would need to go
> through all DRM drivers and implement the better behavior, then could
> restore this doc section.
Right, so that would be really good to explain in the commit message.
Thanks,
pq
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-20 16:19 [BUG] drm/vkms: Failure when using drmGetConnectorCurrent() Leandro Ribeiro
2020-11-24 14:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-27 20:31 ` Leandro Ribeiro
2020-11-27 21:10 ` [PATCH] drm/vkms: detect modes during output initialization Leandro Ribeiro
2020-11-27 21:16 ` Leandro Ribeiro
2020-11-30 10:23 ` Simon Ser
2020-11-30 11:13 ` Pekka Paalanen
2020-11-30 11:16 ` Simon Ser
2020-11-30 11:24 ` Pekka Paalanen
2020-11-30 12:20 ` Simon Ser
2020-12-01 8:46 ` Pekka Paalanen [this message]
2020-12-01 8:55 ` Simon Ser
2020-12-01 2:24 ` [drm/vkms] b6c9ddb8c4: WARNING:at_drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c:#drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes kernel test robot
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