[PATCH 04/10] drm/uapi: Deprecate DRM_MODE_FLAG_BCAST

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Ville Syrjala
<ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
>
> Reject any mode with DRM_MODE_FLAG_BCAST. We have no code that even
> checks for this flag hence it can't possibly do any good.
>
> I think this maybe originated from fbdev where it was supposed to
> indicate PAL/NTSC broadcast timings. I have no idea why those would
> have to be identified by a flag rather than by just the timings
> themselves. And then I assume it got copied into xfree86 for
> fbdevhw, and later on it leaked into the randr protocol and kms uapi.
>
> Since kms fbdev emulation never uses the corresponding fbdev flag
> there should be no sane way for this to come back into kms via
> userspace either.
>
> Cc: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu at synopsys.com>
> Cc: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
> Cc: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>

> ---
>  include/drm/drm_modes.h     | 2 +-
>  include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modes.h b/include/drm/drm_modes.h
> index bce573375dd8..09773e766e1f 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_modes.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_modes.h
> @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ struct drm_display_mode {
>          *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_PCSYNC: composite sync is active high.
>          *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_NCSYNC: composite sync is active low.
>          *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_HSKEW: hskew provided (not used?).
> -        *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_BCAST: not used?
> +        *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_BCAST: <deprecated>
>          *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_PIXMUX: <deprecated>
>          *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_DBLCLK: double-clocked mode.
>          *  - DRM_MODE_FLAG_CLKDIV2: half-clocked mode.
> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h b/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
> index 8d872e17223e..a7cded1c43e8 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ extern "C" {
>  #define DRM_MODE_FLAG_PCSYNC                   (1<<7)
>  #define DRM_MODE_FLAG_NCSYNC                   (1<<8)
>  #define DRM_MODE_FLAG_HSKEW                    (1<<9) /* hskew provided */
> -#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_BCAST                    (1<<10)
> +#define DRM_MODE_FLAG_BCAST                    (1<<10) /* deprecated */
>  #define DRM_MODE_FLAG_PIXMUX                   (1<<11) /* deprecated */
>  #define DRM_MODE_FLAG_DBLCLK                   (1<<12)
>  #define DRM_MODE_FLAG_CLKDIV2                  (1<<13)
> @@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ extern "C" {
>                                  DRM_MODE_FLAG_PCSYNC |         \
>                                  DRM_MODE_FLAG_NCSYNC |         \
>                                  DRM_MODE_FLAG_HSKEW |          \
> -                                DRM_MODE_FLAG_BCAST |          \
>                                  DRM_MODE_FLAG_DBLCLK |         \
>                                  DRM_MODE_FLAG_CLKDIV2 |        \
>                                  DRM_MODE_FLAG_3D_MASK)
> --
> 2.13.6
>
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