drm: hide unregistered connectors from GETCONNECTOR IOCTL
authorSimon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Mon, 1 Aug 2022 13:38:02 +0000 (13:38 +0000)
committerSimon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Mon, 5 Sep 2022 10:59:53 +0000 (12:59 +0200)
commit981f09295687f856d5345e19c7084aca481c1395
treea8ba36ef5a45b04eee3d073884a411ebe656fd36
parente71a8ebbe086c3d80189726ef46bcf718cbe194d
drm: hide unregistered connectors from GETCONNECTOR IOCTL

When registering a connector, the kernel sends a hotplug uevent in
drm_connector_register(). When unregistering a connector, drivers
are expected to send a uevent as well. However, user-space has no way
to figure out that the connector isn't registered anymore: it'll still
be reported in GETCONNECTOR IOCTLs.

The documentation for DRM_CONNECTOR_UNREGISTERED states:

> The connector […] has since been unregistered and removed from
> userspace, or the connector was unregistered before it had a chance
> to be exposed to userspace

Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220801133754.461037-1-contact@emersion.fr
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c