[PATCH 22/25] drm: no-op out GET_STATS ioctl

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 05:55:45PM +0200, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> writes:
> 
> > Again only used by a tests in libdrm and by dristat. Nowadays we have
> > much better tracing tools to get detailed insights into what a drm
> > driver is doing. And for a simple "does it work" kind of question that
> > these stats could answer we have plenty of dmesg debug log spew.
> >
> > So I don't see any use for this stat gathering complexity at all.
> >
> > To be able to gradually drop things start with ripping out the
> > interfaces to it, here the ioctl.
> >
> > To prevent dristat from eating its own stack garbage we can't use the
> > drm_noop ioctl though, since we need to clear the return data with a
> > memset.
> 
> I'm happy to see these two die.  Even back in the day we didn't use
> them.
> 
> This has been quite a trip down memory lane.
> 
> Patch 9 typo: s/functinal/functional/
> Patch 25 typo: s/loose/lose/

Fixed.

> Patches 2, 6-11, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25 are:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>

Thanks for the review. I've pushed a fixed branch with r-b tags to

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/log/?h=drm-cleanups

Cheers, Daniel
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