Am 23.06.21 um 13:14 schrieb Pekka Paalanen: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:17:40 +0200 > Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Am 23.06.21 um 09:32 schrieb Pekka Paalanen: >>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:48:52 +0000 >>> Simon Ser <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 at 11:50, Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Unknown is when no monitor is connected or is when the >>>>> connector/monitor is disabled. >>>> I think the other connector props (link-status, non-desktop, etc) don't >>>> have a special "unset" value, and instead the value is set to a random >>>> enum entry. User-space should ignore the prop on these disconnected >>>> connectors anyways. >>> That sounds fine to me. >> Currently the only case for "not applicable" is when the monitor is >> disconnected, but sicne the properties are so interdependent, there >> might be a case in the future where e.g. a color format that has no >> differentiation between full and limited arises. When there is no >> special unset/not applicable option, the userspace has to know >> exactly when an option is valid or not, possible requiring additional >> logic. >> >> Setting a "not applicable" value allows userspace to be more dumb, >> without much hassle on the kernelspace side. > That's a good point too. So "not applicable" would be a value, but > "unknown" would not be. Ok, I have already renamed the "unknown" option to "not applicable" in my next revision (not yet posted to the mailing list). > > > Thanks, > pq _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
