Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/edid: drm_add_modes_noedid() should set lowest resolution as preferred

[Doug Anderson]

Ville,

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:21 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If we're unable to read the EDID for a display because it's corrupt /
> bogus / invalid then we'll add a set of standard modes for the
> display. When userspace looks at these modes it doesn't really have a
> good concept for which mode to pick and it'll likely pick the highest
> resolution one by default. That's probably not ideal because the modes
> were purely guesses on the part of the Linux kernel.
>
> Let's instead set 640x480 as the "preferred" mode when we have no EDID.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Someone suggested that you might have an opinion on this patch and
another one I posted recently [1]. Do you have any thoughts on it?
Just to be clear: I'm hoping to land _both_ this patch and [1]. If you
don't have an opinion, that's OK too.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426114627.2.I4ac7f55aa446699f8c200a23c10463256f6f439f@changeid

-Doug