Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: Blacklist writeback when adding connectors to fbdev

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On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:28:35AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 05:32:48PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > Writeback connectors do not produce any on-screen output and require
> > special care for use. Such connectors are hidden from enumeration in
> > DRM resources by default, but they are still picked-up by fbdev.
> > This makes rather little sense since fbdev is not really adapted for
> > dealing with writeback.
> > 
> > Moreover, this is also a source of issues when userspace disables the
> > CRTC (and associated plane) without detaching the CRTC from the
> > connector (which is hidden by default). In this case, the connector is
> > still using the CRTC, leading to am "enabled/connectors mismatch" and
> > eventually the failure of the associated atomic commit. This situation
> > happens with VC4 testing under IGT GPU Tools.
> > 
> > Filter out writeback connectors in the fbdev helper to solve this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied with a cc: stable to drm-misc-fixes. Btw, 2 r-b from committers,
someone should have pushed this I think :-)

Thanks for patch&review.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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