[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/auth: Drop master_create/destroy hooks
Daniel Vetter
daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Jan 29 08:14:50 UTC 2020
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 01:14:37PM +0100, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
> On 1/27/20 11:02 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > vmwgfx stopped using them.
> >
> > With the drm device model that we've slowly evolved over the past few
> > years master status essentially controls access to display resources,
> > and nothing else. Since that's a pure access permission check drivers
> > should have no need at all to track additional state on a per file
> > basis.
> >
> > Aside: For cleanup and restoring kernel-internal clients the grand
> > plan is to move everyone over to drm_client and
> > drm_master_internal_acquire/release, like the generic fbdev code
> > already does. That should get rid of most ->lastclose implementations,
> > and I think also subsumes any processing vmwgfx does in
> > master_set/drop.
> >
> > Cc: "Thomas Hellström (VMware)" <thomas_os at shipmail.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Thanks for your review, patch applied.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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