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

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:19:45 +0000
Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:

> 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>

If you want to merge them, that's fine. I just wont bother myself.


Thanks,
pq
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