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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2020-10-23 14:39:25 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2020-10-27 10:36:45 +0100
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drm/doc: Document legacy_cursor_update better
It's the horror and shouldn't be used. Realized we're not clear on this in a discussion with Rob about what msm is doing to better support async commits. v2: Refine existing todo item to include this (Thomas) Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201023123925.2374863-3-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ converted over to the new infrastructure.
One issue with the helpers is that they require that drivers handle completion
events for atomic commits correctly. But fixing these bugs is good anyway.
+Somewhat related is the legacy_cursor_update hack, which should be replaced with
+the new atomic_async_check/commit functionality in the helpers in drivers that
+still look at that flag.
+
Contact: Daniel Vetter, respective driver maintainers
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