[PATCH] drm/i915: Update comment in clear_intel_crtc_state()

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Explain why a few fields of the new pipe_config have their values
preserved, while the others are zeroed.

Signed-off-by: Ander Conselvan de Oliveira <ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index a7732b4..b0cd649 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -11460,7 +11460,11 @@ clear_intel_crtc_state(struct intel_crtc_state *crtc_state)
 	enum intel_dpll_id shared_dpll;
 	uint32_t ddi_pll_sel;
 
-	/* Clear only the intel specific part of the crtc state excluding scalers */
+	/* FIXME: before the switch to atomic started, a new pipe_config was
+	 * kzalloc'd. Code that depends on any field being zero should be
+	 * fixed, so that the crtc_state can be safely duplicated. For now,
+	 * only fields that are know to not cause problems are preserved. */
+
 	tmp_state = crtc_state->base;
 	scaler_state = crtc_state->scaler_state;
 	shared_dpll = crtc_state->shared_dpll;
-- 
2.1.0

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