On 05/09/17 02:52 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> From: Emil Velikov <[email protected]>
> 
> Namely: sync_flip has been unused since the code was introduced back in
> 2015.
> 
> Cc: Kenneth Graunke <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <[email protected]>
> ---
> Hi all,
> I'm fairly certain that the original goal was to actually check the
> boolean. Yet I'm not that familiar with the code to be the final
> judge of that, hence sending this as an RFC.
> 
> Not to mention that this is an ABI break ;-)

Indeed, and the sync_flip parameter is used by the xf86-video-intel SNA
driver.

In general, it's not hard to imagine that a driver's return value for
this hook could depend on the sync_flip value, so I don't think this is
a good idea.


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