Manasi Navare <manasi.d.nav...@intel.com> writes: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:37:55PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: >> Martin Peres <martin.pe...@linux.intel.com> writes: >> >> > On 26/01/17 14:37, Martin Peres wrote: >> >> Despite all the careful planing of the kernel, a link may become >> >> insufficient to handle the currently-set mode. At this point, the >> >> kernel should mark this particular configuration as being broken >> >> and potentially prune the mode before setting the offending connector's >> >> link-status to BAD and send the userspace a hotplug event. This may >> >> happen right after a modeset or later on. >> >> >> >> When available, we should use the link-status information to reset >> >> the wanted mode. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Martin Peres <martin.pe...@linux.intel.com> >> > >> > The relevant kernel patches have landed in drm-tip about a month ago. >> > >> > Eric, would you mind providing feedback on or merging this patch? >> >> The later discussion has sounded like the kernel will (always) prune the >> mode when we re-query, meaning that it doesn't make any sense to try to >> re-set to the old mode. Is this not the case? > > > No the kernel will simply send a hotplug with link status as bad > and then after that point its userspace driver's responsibility > to check if link status is BAD, retry the same mode and if it fails > then re probe.
So the kernel will sometimes allow the same mode to be re-set with the same bpp?
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