[PATCH weston 1/2] compositor-drm: update connectors with connector config

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Pekka,

On 6 February 2017 at 12:00, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:05:51 +0000
> Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>> I think we've got to choose between fixing it for 1.13 and removing it
>> immediately after release (which I will happily do), or just ripping
>> it out now.
>
> I believe it works already as well as it ever has. Therefore any change
> to how it works is something no user has ever seen before.
>
> I reviewed update_outputs() from Weston 1.10 release (a random pick)
> and it seems that too uses --connector only for start-up, and never for
> hotplug. The same for Weston 1.7, so I believe it has never worked any
> better.
>
> If --connector didn't work *at all* currently, then I'd agree on just
> removing it right now. OTOH, I have seen notes that --connector has
> actually been used in the wild, which is why I'd say it's a major
> feature to remove: it has a risk of user-visible breakage (unknown
> command line option).

OK, fair enough. I'd suggest we:
  - merge Emre's two patches as legitimate bugfixes
  - document --connector as deprecated in NEWS for 2.0 (must stop typing 1.13)
  - remove it for 2.1 (or 3.0 or whatever)

How's that sound? For the record, these two patches are:
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>

Cheers,
Daniel