Re: [PATCH v6] drm/virtio: Add option to disable KMS support

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On 3/3/23 02:35, Rob Clark wrote:
> From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a build option to disable modesetting support.  This is useful in
> cases where the guest only needs to use the GPU in a headless mode, or
> (such as in the CrOS usage) window surfaces are proxied to a host
> compositor.
> 
> As the modesetting ioctls are a big surface area for potential security
> bugs to be found (it's happened in the past, we should assume it will
> again in the future), it makes sense to have a build option to disable
> those ioctls in cases where they serve no legitimate purpose.
> 
> v2: Use more if (IS_ENABLED(...))
> v3: Also permit the host to advertise no scanouts
> v4: Spiff out commit msg
> v5: Make num_scanouts==0 and DRM_VIRTIO_GPU_KMS=n behave the same
> v6: Drop conditionally building virtgpu_display.c and early-out of
>     it's init/fini fxns instead
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to misc-next

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry




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