[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/crtc: constify drm_crtc_index parameter

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Ville Syrjälä
<ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> You can't hotplug CRTCs, like you can't hotplug anything else than
>> connectors. And for connectors we have an ida to make sure you never
>> end up with duplicated indizes. So I think we're safe.
>
> Except in i915 we don't abort the driver load if we would fail part
> way into the crtc init. So we'd just keep going with bogus indexes
> and whatnot. I think I wrote a patch to change that, but I'd have
> find it again to be sure. Other drivers may or may not have the same
> problem.

Hm, we should at least make sure we don't leave any partially
initialized modeset objects behind when the modeset part of the driver
fails to load.
-Daniel
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