[PATCH] randrproto: clarify output XID lifetimes.
Aaron Plattner
aplattner at nvidia.com
Thu Apr 23 07:51:29 PDT 2015
On 04/21/2015 05:59 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>
> This just makes a note that randr won't make outputs disappear
> dynamically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> ---
> randrproto.txt | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/randrproto.txt b/randrproto.txt
> index 74b7c36..b2c828d 100644
> --- a/randrproto.txt
> +++ b/randrproto.txt
> @@ -186,6 +186,14 @@ consider as single viewable areas.
> Xinerama's information now comes from the Monitors instead of directly
> from the CRTCs. The Monitor marked as Primary will be listed first.
>
> +1.5.2. Clarification of Output lifetimes
> +
> +With dynamic connectors being a possibility with the introduction of
> +MST, a lot of randr clients can't handle the XID BadMatch when a
Maybe write out "DisplayPort multistream" here, for people unfamiliar
with the "MST" acronym?
Also, other places in this document are careful to capitalize it RandR.
Otherwise,
Reviewed-by: Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com>
> +randr output disappears. This is to clarify that going forward the
> +X server will not remove outputs dynamically, just mark them as
> +disconnected.
> +
> 1.99 Acknowledgments
>
> Our thanks to the contributors to the design found on the xpert mailing
>
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