[Intel-gfx] [RFC PATCH 6/7] drm: add new drm_mode_connector_get_edid to do drm_get_edid and friends

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:39:17AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2016, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > I'm not sure how this all should look like.
> 
> This we definitely agree on, and hence the RFC. :)
> 
> I'm pretty sure it should *not* look like it currently does.

Yup, agreed on that. Semi-random other idea: What about introducing a new
->probe helper callback on connectors which would essentially entai all
the things you want to change? I.e. what's currently done with ->detect
plus connector status forcing, and the ->get_modes vs. edid override
stuff?

Step 1 would be to have a default implementation that does exactly the
same thing. Plus reworking the hdp and poll helpers to prefer ->probe over
just calling ->detect. Although for hpd I'm not sure whether using the
same callback is a good idea really, at least in i915 we have a separate
->hpd callback for DP. And it needs it.

And then we can try to figure out how to re-split responsibilities between
drivers and helpers (and maybe try to stuff parts of it into specialized
helpers, e.g. for DP).
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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