[git pull] drm fixes

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2011-03-23 at 06:40 -0500, Ilija Hadzic wrote: 
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> > 2011/3/23 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> >> On Mit, 2011-03-23 at 18:16 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>> 2011/3/23 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> >>>> On Mit, 2011-03-23 at 04:18 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> One radeon, 2 core fixes, and an interface update to allow for > 2 crtcs
> >>>>> in vblank.
> >>>>
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>>> Ilija Hadzic (1):
> >>>>>       drm/kernel: vblank wait on crtc > 1
> >>>>
> >>>> This patch was still being debated yesterday, are you deliberately
> >>>> pushing it regardless? Once it hits mainline, it'll be pretty much set
> >>>> in stone.
> >>>
> >>> From what I can see it was the userspace patches being debated, this
> >>> one seemed fine and the interface looked okay to me.
> >>
> >> The author ignored my suggestions to make the patch smaller and simpler,
> >> more maintainable and more future-proof all at once.
> >
> > It was already small and I'm not sure merging the flags made it more
> > maintainable. Its always
> > being a slightly painful ioctl, and hopefully any future changes add a
> > new ioctl esp if we want 64-bit values.
> >
> > The only comment I really thought was necessary was changing the CAP
> > name, but since that isn't
> > part of the ABI (just the number) we can quickly fix it with a follow-up.
> >
> > Dave.
> 
> All of the issues debated yesterday, except one, boil down to renaming a 
> handful on #defines without changing the values nor interface nor behavior 
> of the kernel.

No, one central point is not to leave two holes between
_DRM_VBLANK_FLAGS_MASK, _DRM_VBLANK_HIGH_CRTC_MASK and
_DRM_VBLANK_TYPES_MASK .


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