[PATCH v3] drm: Renesas R-Car Display Unit DRM driver

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Thursday 06 June 2013 09:21:35 Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >> To me at least, it doesn't make sense that an encoder can clone
> >> itself.  If an encoder is already in use, trying to clone itself would
> >> only lead to confusion and possible bugs (make sure some code path
> >> doesn't try and reprogram the encoder again, etc.).
> > 
> > For me the possible_clones mask is just the set of encoders which can
> > together share a crtc (presuming that crtc is indeed in all of the
> > possible_crtcs mask of each encoder). From that pov it makes imo sense
> > that a given encoder itself can always be with itself on the same crtc
> > ;-)
> > 
> > Otoh setcrtc doesn't care one bit about encoders (the crtc helpers do
> > internally use them, but it's not interface). And the possible_clones
> > stuff is by far not enough to describe all hw restrictions. So tbh I
> > don't care which way we go (or whether we indeed keep on using this
> > much at all).
> 
> Same.  I can go either way.

So what's the agreement ? :-)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart