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

[Simon Ser]

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.