[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Update comment in clear_intel_crtc_state()
Ander Conselvan de Oliveira
ander.conselvan.de.oliveira at intel.com
Tue May 19 23:03:27 PDT 2015
Explain why a few fields of the new pipe_config have their values
preserved, while the others are zeroed.
Signed-off-by: Ander Conselvan de Oliveira <ander.conselvan.de.oliveira at intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index a7732b4..b0cd649 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -11460,7 +11460,11 @@ clear_intel_crtc_state(struct intel_crtc_state *crtc_state)
enum intel_dpll_id shared_dpll;
uint32_t ddi_pll_sel;
- /* Clear only the intel specific part of the crtc state excluding scalers */
+ /* FIXME: before the switch to atomic started, a new pipe_config was
+ * kzalloc'd. Code that depends on any field being zero should be
+ * fixed, so that the crtc_state can be safely duplicated. For now,
+ * only fields that are know to not cause problems are preserved. */
+
tmp_state = crtc_state->base;
scaler_state = crtc_state->scaler_state;
shared_dpll = crtc_state->shared_dpll;
--
2.1.0
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