If there are potentially buggy or broken monitors that sometimes report the wrong value, then a bounds check that enforces sane values makes sense. If the range of sane values changes decades later, then you’ll have to update things, but you’ll likely need to update other things on that timescale anyway, e.g. to support newer display connectors that support the new limits.
Redjard@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
I’d expect any current displayport port to handle very high refreshrates when the resolution is reduced correspondingly. The limit to my knowledge is in bitrate.
I’d also expect connector support to sit in the gpu driver.
A basic sanity-check might be the answer though. Still why not improve it instead of just increasing the number? You could check if the rate is an outlier or there are many profiles offered that climb up to that rate for example.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Either you’d be accessing the internet to query which monitor parameters are sensible each time a monitor connects, or you’d be periodically updating a list of sensible monitor parameters which is exactly what this update was.
Redjard@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
The monitor sends you a list of accepted input formats. You can sanity check among the list for any outliers, without online information and without hardcoding limits.