On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 11:14 +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > Hi, > > please document somewhere that ends up in git history (commit > message, > code comments, description of the parameter would be the best but > maybe > there isn't enough space?) what Christian König explained in > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2020-December/291254.html > > that this is a stop-gap feature intended to be removed as soon as > possible (when a better solution comes up, which could be years). > > So far I have not seen a single mention of this intention in your > patch > submissions, and I think it is very important to make known. Hi, Thanks for the headsup, I shall add the relevant info in the next verison. > > I also did not see an explanation of why this instead of > manufacturing > these video modes in userspace (an idea mentioned by Christian in the > referenced email). I think that too should be part of a commit > message. This is an opt-in feature, which shall be superseded by a better solution. We also add a set of common modes for scaling similarly. Userspace can still add whatever mode they want. So I dont see a reason why this cant be in the kernel. -- Regards, Aurabindo Pillai > > > Thanks, > pq _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
