[PATCH] drm/vkms: detect modes during output initialization

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 08:46:59 UTC 2020


On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:20:08 +0000
Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:

> CC Daniel and Ville
> 
> On Monday, November 30, 2020 12:24 PM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > Please record the justitication for that patch in its commit message.
> > > > "Can't" does not explain anything.  
> > >
> > > Yeah, sorry about that. I'm just annoyed by all of this get_connector
> > > uAPI, so I don't really want to spend a lot of time documenting why
> > > it's so gross.  
> >
> > But I still don't understand why the kernel cannot be fixed to do the
> > right thing that most of us assumed it should be doing: probe
> > automatically so userspace never needs to.  
> 
> My understanding is that it could maybe be implemented this way, but
> that it's not the way it works right now. So someone would need to go
> through all DRM drivers and implement the better behavior, then could
> restore this doc section.

Right, so that would be really good to explain in the commit message.


Thanks,
pq
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