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

[Simon Ser]

On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 9:46 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

v2 should take care of it. Let me know if you think the new commit message can
be improved.