On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:38:35 +0100, Sascha Hauer <s.ha...@pengutronix.de> wrote: > The drivers currently check in set_property whether the property is > unchanged. move this check into the core and do not bother the drivers > with checking for unchanged properties.
This patch seems to have functional side-effects beyond the description. For example, > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c > index db3b461..0024b59 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c > @@ -2223,9 +2223,6 @@ intel_dp_set_property(struct drm_connector *connector, > int i = val; > bool has_audio; > > - if (i == intel_dp->force_audio) > - return 0; > - Here we are checking against the current value of the intel_dp, which may in theory be modified elsewhere as well, and avoiding the modeswitch if it is unnecessary. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
