[PATCH v4] DRM: add DRM Driver for Samsung SoC EXYNOS4210.
Inki Dae
inki.dae at samsung.com
Wed Sep 21 21:59:04 EDT 2011
Hello, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk at oracle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:53 AM
> To: Inki Dae
> Cc: airlied at linux.ie; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org;
> sw0312.kim at samsung.com; kyungmin.park at samsung.com; linux-arm-
> kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] DRM: add DRM Driver for Samsung SoC EXYNOS4210.
>
> > > > > > + DRM_ERROR("desired size is bigger then real
> > size.\n");
> > > > >
> > > > > So .. you can't continue by just using the real size instead?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I am afraid I don't understand what you mean but I think that
> condition
> > > is
> > > > fine. size is a vm area to user-desired size and you could request
> > > mapping
> > > > as specific size. so it just check user-requested virtual space
> region
> > > it
> > > > bigger than allocated physical memory region to be mapped. if there
> is
> > > my
> > > > missing points, I would be happy to you give me your comments. thank
> > you.
> > >
> > > I meant that you return -EINVAL. But I am wondering if it would be
> > > possible
> > > to just continue on, but ignore what the user specified.
> > >
> > > I think the issue here is that you are outputing the DRM_ERROR and
> > > I am not sure if it is that neccessary. Perhaps DRM_DEBUG, but
> DRM_ERROR
> > > just seems a bit.. heavy handed.
> > >
> >
> > I thought this condition would be critical issue as user application
> should
> > be terminated. is your wondering if user application could go ahead
> after
> > mmap failed? this is just my view so I would be happy you to give me
> your
> > advice. Thank you.
>
> I think terminating the appliaction is the right thing. But the DRM_ERROR
> is not neccessary.
I understood. I will remove DRM_ERROR or use DRM_DEBUG instead. thank you.
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