[PATCH 00/23] drm: Eliminate plane->fb/crtc usage for atomic drivers

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 17:54:45 UTC 2018


Hi Ville,

On 22 March 2018 at 15:22, Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
>
> I really just wanted to fix i915 to re-enable its planes afer load
> detection (a two line patch). This is what I actually ended up with
> after I ran into a framebuffer refcount leak with said two line patch.
>
> I've tested this on a few i915 boxes and so far it's looking
> good. Everything else is just compile tested.
>
Mostly thinking out loud:

Wondering if one cannot somehow (re)move plane->fb/crtc altogether.
Otherwise drivers will reintroduce similar code, despite the WARNs and
beefy documentation :-\

HTH
Emil


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