From: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>

To avoid accidentally breaking things in the future add a
comment explaining why we misconfigure the pipe_mask.

Also toss in a TODO for investigating a single encoder
approach as opposed to the encoder-per-pipe approach.

Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_mst.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_mst.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_mst.c
index 7be82cf926ca..cb3047fe2d02 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_mst.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_mst.c
@@ -615,6 +615,18 @@ intel_dp_create_fake_mst_encoder(struct intel_digital_port 
*intel_dig_port, enum
        intel_encoder->power_domain = intel_dig_port->base.power_domain;
        intel_encoder->port = intel_dig_port->base.port;
        intel_encoder->cloneable = 0;
+       /*
+        * This is wrong, but broken userspace uses the intersection
+        * of possible_crtcs of all the encoders of a given connector
+        * to figure out which crtcs can drive said connector. What
+        * should be used instead is the union of possible_crtcs.
+        * To keep such userspace functioning we must misconfigure
+        * this to make sure the intersection is not empty :(
+        *
+        * TODO: figure out if we could eliminate the per-pipe
+        * encoders here and just have a single encoder for each
+        * MST connector. That would sidestep the userspace bug.
+        */
        intel_encoder->pipe_mask = ~0;
 
        intel_encoder->compute_config = intel_dp_mst_compute_config;
-- 
2.21.0

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