[PATCH 2/2] drm/msm: Take the ioctls away from the KMS-only driver

Dmitry Baryshkov dmitry.baryshkov at oss.qualcomm.com
Sat Jul 5 15:45:29 UTC 2025


On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 07:52:41AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> KMS-only drivers should only allocate dumb buffers.  The driver custom
> ioctls are only meant for the usermode gpu driver (mesa), and not for
> general consumption, so they don't make sense for standalone KMS
> drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark at oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 

If we need GEM IOCTLs for the KMS node, we can think about it later.
Let's remove them for now.

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at oss.qualcomm.com>


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With best wishes
Dmitry


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