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authorAnder Conselvan de Oliveira <ander.conselvan.de.oliveira@intel.com>2015-05-20 06:03:27 (GMT)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2015-05-20 09:26:11 (GMT)
commit7546a38411fc3eb9e0ff1252718b0bf6579c87f6 (patch)
treebab30a9cc3f3724f0cf0dc6aba5a3d45a4d2912f /drivers
parentb88baa2a4616bd8fcd6203b3bc1b8cd90e232cb0 (diff)
downloadlinux-7546a38411fc3eb9e0ff1252718b0bf6579c87f6.tar.xz
drm/i915: Update comment in clear_intel_crtc_state()
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@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index 9d2d6fb..4a34709 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -11485,7 +11485,11 @@ 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;