Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: pmic_glink: fix connector type to be DisplayPort

[Johan Hovold]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:29:26PM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 at 14:22, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I was just going to post a patch fixing this after finally investigating
> > why the DisplayPort outputs on the X13s were annoyingly identified as
> > "Unknown20-1" and "Unknown20-2" instead of the expected "DP-1" and
> > "DP-2".
> 
> Note, ideally userspace should use drmModeGetConnectorTypeName() from
> libdrm to figure out the proper name for a connector type. That way we
> only need to update a single spot when adding a new connector type,
> instead of patching a whole bunch of programs.

Yeah, I only skimmed the xrandr code and these strings appear to
originate from some X library. So hopefully not that many places to
update.

Scripts and other tools may still be using these strings directly
however (e.g. as did my custom script to enable external displays).

Johan