linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm fixes

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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.1103240628490.1156@umail>
Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:31:17 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Ilija Hadzic <ihadzic@...earch.bell-labs.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
cc:	Michel DÃ¤nzer <michel@...nzer.net>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes


OK, I'll update libdrm side to match this change and send the patch later 
today

-- Ilija

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Dave Airlie wrote:

> 2011/3/23 Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>:
>> On Mit, 2011-03-23 at 06:40 -0500, Ilija Hadzic wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2011/3/23 Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>:
>>>>> On Mit, 2011-03-23 at 18:16 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>>>> 2011/3/23 Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>:
>>>>>>> On Mit, 2011-03-23 at 04:18 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> One radeon, 2 core fixes, and an interface update to allow for > 2 crtcs
>>>>>>>> in vblank.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ilija Hadzic (1):
>>>>>>>>       drm/kernel: vblank wait on crtc > 1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patch was still being debated yesterday, are you deliberately
>>>>>>> pushing it regardless? Once it hits mainline, it'll be pretty much set
>>>>>>> in stone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From what I can see it was the userspace patches being debated, this
>>>>>> one seemed fine and the interface looked okay to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> The author ignored my suggestions to make the patch smaller and simpler,
>>>>> more maintainable and more future-proof all at once.
>>>>
>>>> It was already small and I'm not sure merging the flags made it more
>>>> maintainable. Its always
>>>> being a slightly painful ioctl, and hopefully any future changes add a
>>>> new ioctl esp if we want 64-bit values.
>>>>
>>>> The only comment I really thought was necessary was changing the CAP
>>>> name, but since that isn't
>>>> part of the ABI (just the number) we can quickly fix it with a follow-up.
>>>>
>>>> Dave.
>>>
>>> All of the issues debated yesterday, except one, boil down to renaming a
>>> handful on #defines without changing the values nor interface nor behavior
>>> of the kernel.
>>
>> No, one central point is not to leave two holes between
>> _DRM_VBLANK_FLAGS_MASK, _DRM_VBLANK_HIGH_CRTC_MASK and
>> _DRM_VBLANK_TYPES_MASK .
>
> Okay I've pushed this to my tree before this discussion got on my
> radar and I'm just catching up now.
>
> I'll push the following patch to Linus to keep the biggest gap in the
> 32-bit word for future use, then
> we can fixup the userspace patches.
>
> Kernel interfaces aren't considered unchangeable usually on the kernel
> is released.
>
> Dave.
>