[PATCH 1/4] drm: add picture aspect ratio flags

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 11:34:36 UTC 2016


On 4 August 2016 at 11:16, Sharma, Shashank <shashank.sharma at intel.com> wrote:
> Hello Emil,
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> I have got mixed opinion on this.
>
> IMHO we should expose them to userspace too, as UI agents like Hardware
> composer/X/Wayland must know what does these
>
> flags means, so that they can display them on the end user screen (like
> settings menu)
>
> But few people even think thats its too complex to be exposed to userspace
> agents.
>
If we want these/such flags passed between kernel and user space one must:
 - Provide a kernel interface how to do that
 - Provide a userspace (acked by respective developers/maintainers)
that the approach is sane and proves useful.

Since the above can take some time, I'd suggest dropping those from
the UAPI header(s)... for now.

-Emil


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