The -modesetting ddx has a totally broken idea of how atomic works: - doesn't disable old connectors, assuming they get auto-disable like with the legacy setcrtc - assumes ASYNC_FLIP is wired through for the atomic ioctl - not a single call to TEST_ONLY Iow the implementation is a 1:1 translation of legacy ioctls to atomic, which is a) broken b) pointless. We already have bugs in both i915 and amdgpu-DC where this prevents us from enabling neat features. If anyone ever cares about atomic in X we can easily add a new atomic level (req->value == 2) for X to get back the shiny toys. Since these broken versions of -modesetting have been shipping, there's really no other way to get out of this bind. References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/629 References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/merge_requests/180 Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c index 2c120c58f72d..1cb7b4c3c87c 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c @@ -334,6 +334,9 @@ drm_setclientcap(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, struct drm_file *file_priv) file_priv->universal_planes = req->value; break; case DRM_CLIENT_CAP_ATOMIC: + /* The modesetting DDX has a totally broken idea of atomic. */ + if (strstr(current->comm, "X")) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (!drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_ATOMIC)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; if (req->value > 1) -- 2.23.0