[PATCH 01/13] drm/amdgpu: introduce and honour DRM_FORCE_AUTH workaround

[Emil Velikov]

On 2019/06/21, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> Am 21.06.19 um 13:58 schrieb Emil Velikov:
> > On 2019/06/21, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> >> Am 21.06.19 um 12:53 schrieb Emil Velikov:
> >>> On 2019/06/21, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> >>>> [SNIP]
> >>>> Well partially. That RADV broke is unfortunate, but we have done so many
> >>>> customized userspace stuff both based on Mesa/DDX as well as closed
> >>>> source components that it is just highly likely that we would break
> >>>> something else as well.
> >>>>
> >>> As an engineer I like to work with tangibles. The highly likely part is
> >>> probable, but as mentioned multiple times the series allows for a _dead_
> >>> trivial way to address any such problems.
> >> Well to clarify my concern is that this won't be so trivial.
> >>
> >> You implemented on workaround for one specific case and it is perfectly
> >> possible that for other cases we would have to completely revert the
> >> removal of DRM_AUTH.
> >>
> > I would encourage you to take a closer look at my patch and point out
> > how parcicular cases cannot be handled.
> 
> Well the last time I looked it only blocked the first call to the IOCTL.
> 
Hmm interesting, you're replied to my patch without even reading it :'-(
Can you please give it a close look and reply inline?

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-May/219238.html

> >  From your experiense, do user-space developers care about doing (or
> > generally do) the right thing?
> 
> No, not at all. Except for Marek and Michel they just take what works 
> and even Marek is often short-cutting on this.
> 
Interesting, guess I should have asked this question from the start.

Thanks
Emil