[PATCH 3/3] drm/connector: Deprecate split for BT.2020 in drm_colorspace enum

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Thu Feb 9 18:08:57 UTC 2023


On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 05:03:19PM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Thursday, February 9th, 2023 at 17:38, Joshua Ashton <joshua at froggi.es> wrote:
> 
> > > I mean, the strings are the uAPI, not the integers, right?
> >
> > Both are uAPI these days.
> 
> Yes. The integers are uAPI, if you change them you'll break libliftoff
> users. There is an old thread discussing this somewhere. The tl;dr was
> that there is no use-case for exposing the same string with a different
> integer, so no good reason to justify the substantial complexity of
> handling this case.

If people actually depend on that we should probably have tests to
make sure no one breaks it by accident.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel


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