[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/12] drm: Put drm_display_mode on diet

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 01:32:29PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Looks like getting rid of private_flags is going to be pretty
> > straightforward. I'll post patches for that once this first series
> > lands.
> 
> Going all in on crtc state? I suppose migrating away from private_flags
> could easily start in i915 before that. Seems rather independent.
> 
> I guess it's __intel_get_crtc_scanline() and:
> 
> 	vblank = &crtc->base.dev->vblank[drm_crtc_index(&crtc->base)];
> 	mode = &vblank->hwmode;
> 
> 	if (mode->private_flags & I915_MODE_FLAG_GET_SCANLINE_FROM_TIMESTAMP)
> 
> that gives me the creeps in reviewing all that.
> 
> There's also [1] adding new uses for private_flags; I think there were
> issues in getting at the right crtc state on some of those paths, but I
> forget the exact details. Ideas?

I'm just going to move them to the crtc_state and put a copy into the
crtc itself for the vblank code. Pretty much a 1:1 replacement. 
Saves me from having to think ;)

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel