On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 9:46 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:20:08 +0000 > Simon Ser contact@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > CC Daniel and Ville > > On Monday, November 30, 2020 12:24 PM, Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > > Please record the justitication for that patch in its commit message. > > > > > "Can't" does not explain anything. > > > > > > > > Yeah, sorry about that. I'm just annoyed by all of this get_connector > > > > uAPI, so I don't really want to spend a lot of time documenting why > > > > it's so gross. > > > > > > But I still don't understand why the kernel cannot be fixed to do the > > > right thing that most of us assumed it should be doing: probe > > > automatically so userspace never needs to. > > > > My understanding is that it could maybe be implemented this way, but > > that it's not the way it works right now. So someone would need to go > > through all DRM drivers and implement the better behavior, then could > > restore this doc section. > > Right, so that would be really good to explain in the commit message. v2 should take care of it. Let me know if you think the new commit message can be improved. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
