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From:   Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:25:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] drm: Add writeback connector type
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Have we considered hiding writeback behind a client cap instead?

It is kinda *almost* unneeded, since the connector reports itself as
disconnected.

I'm not sure what the reason was to drop the cap, but I think it would
be better to have a cap so WB connectors don't show up in, for ex,
xrandr

BR,
-R