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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-08 15:12:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-09 16:18:02 +0100 |
| commit | aabbcab6db535a3342876cdaa5c941d569e72589 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c7c1e6ebeb1f2a4f136bd8665dc825539c6c3be /Documentation/gpu | |
| parent | drm/qxl: Remove qxl_debugfs_remove_files() (diff) | |
| download | linux-aabbcab6db535a3342876cdaa5c941d569e72589.tar.xz linux-aabbcab6db535a3342876cdaa5c941d569e72589.zip | |
drm/doc: Add todo about connector_list_iter
At least radeon, amdgpu and nouveau should be converted. We have
patches for i915 already.
v2: Spelling (Sean).
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170308141257.12119-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 13 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index ce0f1a588e7f..64e9d16170ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -153,6 +153,19 @@ following drivers still use ``struct_mutex``: ``msm``, ``omapdrm`` and Contact: Daniel Vetter +Switch to drm_connector_list_iter for any connector_list walking +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +Connectors can be hotplugged, and we now have a special list of helpers to walk +the connector_list in a race-free fashion, without incurring deadlocks on +mutexes and other fun stuff. + +Unfortunately most drivers are not converted yet. At least all those supporting +DP MST hotplug should be converted, since for those drivers the difference +matters. See drm_for_each_connector_iter() vs. drm_for_each_connector(). + +Contact: Daniel Vetter + Core refactorings ================= |