[PATCH] xf86drm: remove to open the DRM device unnecessarily

[Emil Velikov]

On 29 May 2015 at 07:50, Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim at samsung.com> wrote:
> On 05/29/2015 12:51 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> Seems like I'm either too subtle and/or too stingy earlier.
>>
>> If drmAvailable() returns false, we have two options:
>>  - opt for the old-schoold (dri1) and ask drm_server_info to load the
>> module for us, or
>>  - bail out, as neither drmOpenByBusid() or drmOpenByName() will be
>> able to open the device considering that a DRM module is not loaded.
>>
>> So what I was hinting earlier was to make the above more obvious,
>> rather than reordering the arguments in the if clause. How does that
>> sound ?
>>
>
> I'm unhappy about to open DRM device always via drmAvailable(). IMHO
> it's enough to check DRM device can be open by drmOpenByBusid() or
> drmOpenByName() if don't load module and actually i expect DRM device
> is open only once when call drmOpenWithType().
>
Seems that checking via drmAvailable() is quicker than going through
the whole drmOpen*. On the other side the former does not cater for
render only devices... fun.

Seems like this is the price to pay, considering that our current
libdrm caters after both UMS(DRI1) and KMS(DRI2+) drivers. In the
kernel we did have some nice cleanup (props to Daniel V and others)
although in the userspace side things are less polished.

Perhaps we can get libdrm 3 soon or start annotating the old functions
as depreciated ? Curious if one should add libdrm_ancient.so (or
similar) to ensure that things don't break when building old apps
against new libdrm ?

TLDR: No objections against the patch, but we should consider
cleaning/splitting the ancient APIs.

-Emil