RE: [PATCH v2] drm/hyperv: Fix double mouse pointers

Dexuan Cui
2021-10-06T18:44:03Z

> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 12:37 PM
> To: drawat.floss@gmail.com; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>;
> airlied@linux.ie; daniel@ffwll.ch; tzimmermann@suse.de;
> dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Dexuan Cui
> <decui@microsoft.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/hyperv: Fix double mouse pointers
>
> Hyper-V supports a hardware cursor feature. It is not used by Linux VM,
> but the Hyper-V host still draws a point as an extra mouse pointer,
> which is unwanted, especially when Xorg is running.
>
> The hyperv_fb driver uses synthvid_send_ptr() to hide the unwanted pointer.
> When the hyperv_drm driver was developed, the function synthvid_send_ptr()
> was not copied from the hyperv_fb driver. Fix the issue by adding the
> function into hyperv_drm.
>
> Fixes: 76c56a5affeb ("drm/hyperv: Add DRM driver for hyperv synthetic video
> device")
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Deepak Rawat <drawat.floss@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> Renamed hyperv_send_ptr() to hyperv_hide_hw_ptr().
> Improved the comments and the git commit message.
> Added Reviewed-by's from Haiyang and Deepak.
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/hyperv/hyperv_drm.h | 1 +
> drivers/gpu/drm/hyperv/hyperv_drm_modeset.c | 1 +
> drivers/gpu/drm/hyperv/hyperv_drm_proto.c | 54
> ++++++++++++++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi DRM maintainers,
Could you please take a look at the patch?

Thanks,
-- Dexuan