Re: [PATCH v2] mode: Retrieve only the current information for a Connector

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On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:31:46PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:08:42PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:38:08AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >> > +   if (conn.encoder_id) {
> >> > +           r->count_encoders = 1;
> >>
> >> This only works for i915 where we only ever have 1 encoder. Other drivers
> >> reassign encoders depending upon output type (e.g. dvi-i vs dvi-d). Imo
> >> it'd be cleaner to do something like the below:
> >
> > Not quite. This value is the currently active encoder_id for the
> > connector; there can only be one. As opposed to the array of associated
> > encoders that we normally supply on ouptut. Even i915 has multiple
> > encoders on connectors nowadays!
> 
> DRM_MAX_ENCODER in the kernel is 3. And i915 has multipled connectors
> for the same encoder, but not the other way round. Having multiple
> encoders is the reason for the best_encoders callback in the crtc
> helpers, which we've ditched for i915 (we always pick the single
> intel_connector->encoder statically assigned at load time).

We have multiple encoders on the same connector, since 3.17.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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