[PATCH] drm/auth: Drop master_create/destroy hooks

Thomas Hellström (VMware) thomas_os at shipmail.org
Mon Jan 27 12:14:37 UTC 2020


On 1/27/20 11:02 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> vmwgfx stopped using them.
>
> With the drm device model that we've slowly evolved over the past few
> years master status essentially controls access to display resources,
> and nothing else. Since that's a pure access permission check drivers
> should have no need at all to track additional state on a per file
> basis.
>
> Aside: For cleanup and restoring kernel-internal clients the grand
> plan is to move everyone over to drm_client and
> drm_master_internal_acquire/release, like the generic fbdev code
> already does. That should get rid of most ->lastclose implementations,
> and I think also subsumes any processing vmwgfx does in
> master_set/drop.
>
> Cc: "Thomas Hellström (VMware)" <thomas_os at shipmail.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>




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