[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: fix definition of the DRM_IOCTL_I915_GET_SPRITE_COLORKEY ioctl

Jesse Barnes jesse.barnes at intel.com
Fri Mar 27 08:18:28 PDT 2015


On 03/27/2015 01:04 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 08:39:56AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Fix definition of the DRM_IOCTL_I915_GET_SPRITE_COLORKEY ioctl, so that it
>>> is different from the DRM_IOCTL_I915_SET_SPRITE_COLORKEY ioctl.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala at gmail.com>
>>
>> Whoa. Broken since its introduction in
>>
>> commit 8ea30864229e54b01ac0e9fe88c4b733a940ec4e
>> Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 3 08:05:39 2012 -0800
>>
>>     drm/i915: add color key support v4
>>
>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> 
> Nope, we'll just rip it out and replace it all with the drm_noop ioctl. At
> least I didn't find any userspace anywhere and only broken definitions.
> Proof enough this isn't useful.
> 
> Even more so since that means we don't have to convert the get ioctl over
> to atomic, yay! I'll send patches.

Can we just skip the noop part and delete it altogether?  It was only
added speculatively and obviously never used at all...


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