Quoting Daniel Vetter (2020-02-04 15:01:45)
> We want to only take the BKL on crap drivers, but to know whether
> we have a crap driver we first need to look it up. Split this shuffle
> out from the main BKL-disabling patch, for more clarity. Historical
> aside: When the kernel-wide BKL was removed
We want to only take the BKL on crap drivers, but to know whether
we have a crap driver we first need to look it up. Split this shuffle
out from the main BKL-disabling patch, for more clarity. Historical
aside: When the kernel-wide BKL was removed, it was replaced by
drm_global_mutex within the sco
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 05:45:45PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Daniel.
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:24:09AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > We want to only take the BKL on crap drivers, but to know whether
> The BKL was killed long time ago..
> In other words I was confused until I realized
Hi Daniel.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:24:09AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> We want to only take the BKL on crap drivers, but to know whether
The BKL was killed long time ago..
In other words I was confused until I realized that
- BKL
- drm_global_mutex BKL
- drm_global_mutex
Was all the same. At
We want to only take the BKL on crap drivers, but to know whether
we have a crap driver we first need to look it up. Split this shuffle
out from the main BKL-disabling patch, for more clarity.
Since the minors are refcounted drm_minor_acquire is purely internal
and this does not have a driver visi
