That's purely for the uapi layer to implement the ALLOW_MODESET flag.
Drivers should instead look at the state, e.g. through
drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset(), which vmwgfx already does. Also remove
the confusing comment, since checking allow_modeset is at best a micro
optimization.
v2: Rebase
Reviewed-by: Deepak Rawat <drawat@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190520223500.6032-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
if (ret)
return ret;
- if (!state->allow_modeset)
- return ret;
-
- /*
- * Legacy path do not set allow_modeset properly like
- * @drm_atomic_helper_update_plane, This will result in unnecessary call
- * to vmw_kms_check_topology. So extra set of check.
- */
for_each_new_crtc_in_state(state, crtc, crtc_state, i) {
if (drm_atomic_crtc_needs_modeset(crtc_state))
need_modeset = true;