Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ALSA: hda/i915: Allow override of gpu binding.

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

>>>> @@ -121,6 +128,9 @@ static int i915_gfx_present(struct pci_dev
>>>> *hdac_pci)
>>>>   {
>>>>       struct pci_dev *display_dev = NULL;
>>>>   +    if (!gpu_bind || (gpu_bind < 0 &&
>>>> video_firmware_drivers_only()))
>>>> +        return false;
>>
>>
>> Bear with me since I am just going back to work mode but I can't figure
>> out what the second part of the test does
>>
>> bool video_firmware_drivers_only(void)
>> {
>>     return video_nomodeset;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_firmware_drivers_only);
>>
>> and video_nomodeset=1 by default, so why would we return false when
>> gpu_bind = -1?
>>
>> This seems to be a change of functionality, what am I missing?
> video_nomodeset is 0 by default, only when nomodeset is given as
> argument is it set to 1. :-)


I must be missing something on how the default is handled.

bool video_firmware_drivers_only(void)
{
	return video_nomodeset;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_firmware_drivers_only);

static int __init disable_modeset(char *str)
{
	video_nomodeset = true;

isn't default 'true' then?