[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: Add a generic function to change connector type/id of connector dynamically

[ykzhao]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 01:24 +0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:25:04 +1000
> Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:16 +0800, yakui.zhao at intel.com wrote:
> > > From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao at intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Sometimes one connector can support more than one connector type. And it
> > > will switch the connector type/id dynamically according to the external
> > > connected device.
> > 
> > Connectors cannot change they physical plugs that users plug stuff into.
> 
> Yakui, I think what we really want here is to split the SDVO code (at
> the very least) into an encoder/connector scheme like radeon uses.
> Most of the Intel outputs have paired encoder/connectors (e.g. LVDS,
> TV, VGA) but SDVO doesn't, so we should split it out.  The fact that
> it's still treated as a single blob is historical, dating back from the
> big rework Dave did to properly split encoders from connectors.

Thanks for pointing out the issue.  And we will try in this direction.

Best regards.
	Yakui.
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