On 2017.07.19 00:55:19 +0000, Zhang, Tina wrote:
> > 
> > Of course we need that modifier for complete format info. Don't just think 
> > for
> > i915 usage, there's possible modifier for other vendor driver, and it's 
> > required
> > for e.g ADDFB2 in drm kms. Pls add it back in next version.
> We definitely can add it back if it is thought to be useful. Just some 
> curious, as we don't produce the content in the GEM buffer (a.k.a we just 
> expose it here), why we need to know the tile mode. In addition, DRM API can 
> support the functionality to get the tile mode ot GEM buffer. 
> 

That's vendor driver specific ioctl API instead of DRM API.
And besides tiling there could be other vendor's modifiers
which need to be kept for complete info.

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