From 7546a38411fc3eb9e0ff1252718b0bf6579c87f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ander Conselvan de Oliveira Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 09:03:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter --- 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 9d2d6fbbf3e3..4a34709794f0 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; -- 2.11.0