[PATCH 1/4] drm/atomic-helper: Add an atomice best_encoder callback

[Thierry Reding]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:24:08PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> With legacy helpers all the routing was already set up when calling
> best_encoder and so could be inspected. But with atomic it's staged,
> hence we need a new atomic compliant callback for drivers which need
> to inspect the requested state and can't just decided the best encoder
> statically.
> 
> This is needed to fix up i915 dp mst where we need to pick the right
> encoder depending upon the requested CRTC for the connector.
> 
> v2: Don't forget to amend the kerneldoc
> 
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 7 ++++++-
>  include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h       | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> index aac212297b49..8694ca9beee3 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> @@ -196,7 +196,12 @@ update_connector_routing(struct drm_atomic_state *state, int conn_idx)
>  	}
>  
>  	funcs = connector->helper_private;
> -	new_encoder = funcs->best_encoder(connector);
> +
> +	if (funcs->atomic_best_encoder)
> +		new_encoder = funcs->atomic_best_encoder(connector,
> +							 connector_state);
> +	else
> +		new_encoder = funcs->best_encoder(connector);
>  
>  	if (!new_encoder) {
>  		DRM_DEBUG_ATOMIC("No suitable encoder found for [CONNECTOR:%d:%s]\n",
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h
> index c8fc187061de..918aa68b5199 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h
> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ struct drm_encoder_helper_funcs {
>   * @get_modes: get mode list for this connector
>   * @mode_valid: is this mode valid on the given connector? (optional)
>   * @best_encoder: return the preferred encoder for this connector
> + * @atomic_best_encoder: atomic version of @best_encoder

This could arguably be more verbose, but the limits of kerneldoc don't
make that easy. Perhaps a more verbose description could be provided in
done in the DRM DocBook, along with other documentation about atomic
mode-setting.

Irrespective of that, this makes sense, so:

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
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