drm/todo: Add item for the plane->atomic_check confusion

It's frankly a mess, and the confusion around plane_state->crtc/fb
that I fixed up in this series is the least of the problems. Add a
todo as a future note of how this could be done a lot better, and with
a lot less driver confusion.

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191213172612.1514842-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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@ -72,6 +72,28 @@ Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers
Level: Advanced
Improve plane atomic_check helpers
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Aside from the clipped coordinates right above there's a few suboptimal things
with the current helpers:
- drm_plane_helper_funcs->atomic_check gets called for enabled or disabled
planes. At best this seems to confuse drivers, worst it means they blow up
when the plane is disabled without the CRTC. The only special handling is
resetting values in the plane state structures, which instead should be moved
into the drm_plane_funcs->atomic_duplicate_state functions.
- Once that's done, helpers could stop calling ->atomic_check for disabled
planes.
- Then we could go through all the drivers and remove the more-or-less confused
checks for plane_state->fb and plane_state->crtc.
Contact: Daniel Vetter
Level: Advanced
Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers
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