Re: DRM modesetting & sysfs

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:57 am Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> I was going to suggest that you plug it into the hotplug_stage_two
> function but it looks like you have already done that. Things might be
> routed differently now then since the last time I looked at the code,
> are you sure that stage_two is being run?

I'll have to check, I'm not sure I'm even getting interrupts...

> >  Any thoughts on the interface?  Anything in particular people would like
> > to see?
>
> Looks good, can you write to dpms, that is turn a monitor on and of,
> that would be slightly cool but not overly useful. On the whole I
> think exporting properties are fine, but I don't think setting modes
> and crtc's are to be done in sysfs. However it is entirely possible.

Agreed.  I view this more as a way of exporting information about the DRM 
configuration to userspace rather than a way to control the whole thing.  I 
think we should stick with ioctls for the latter...  Anyway thanks for 
checking it out.

Jesse
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