[PATCH] drm/qxl: drop prime import/export callbacks
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Apr 9 08:47:19 UTC 2019
Hi,
> > Should we add something like DRM_PRIME_CAP_SAME_DEVICE?
>
> Yeah I expect we need some sort of same device only capability, so
> that dri3 userspace can work.
>
> If we just fail importing in these cases what happens? userspace just
> gets confused, I know we used to print a backtrace if we hit the mmap
> path, but if we didn't do that what happens?
Well, we printed a backtrace and returned -EINVAL. So it looked a bit
scary due to the backtrace which is usually printed for more serious
problems. But we also returned a proper error code.
Userspace was not happy. It was wayland (gnome-shell) which ran into it
it, and it didn't came up with a working display.
cheers,
Gerd
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