On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 04:45:34PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 07:07:40AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 12:48:11AM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > 6.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
> > > > know.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for queuing this and the corresponding reverts for the other
> > > stable trees. This one patch doesn't match what I sent, the address
> > > should be changed to DP_TRAINING_PATTERN_SET not to DP_DPCD_REV, see
> > > [1]. I still think that's the correct thing to do here conforming to the
> > > DP Standard and matching what the upstream kernel does, also solving a
> > > link training issue for a DP2.0 docking station.
> > > 
> > > The reverts queued for the other stable trees are correct, since for
> > > now I do not want to change the behavior in those (i.e. those trees
> > > should continue to use the DP_DPCD_REV register matching what's been the
> > > case since the DPCD probing was introduced).
> > 
> > Ick, why were the values different for different branches? That feels
> > wrong, and is why I missed that.
> 
> The requirement for changing the DPCD probe address was only
> introduced/clarified by a recent DP Standard version (with the
> introducation of LTTPR / UHBR link rates), so in the DRM code this got
> changed only in v6.16.0. However, this change revealed a bug in the
> firmwares of an eDP panel and Thunderbolt host, which also had to be
> fixed/worked around. The only such remaining issue is the latter one
> tracked at [1], which is now fixed by [2].
> 
> Based on all the above I still would like to keep the change only in the
> v6.16 tree and not backport it to earlier stable trees, until having
> more confidence that the change doesn't cause an issue for any sink
> device.
> 
> > Can you just send a fix-up patch for the one I got wrong?
> 
> Ok, I can send a patch for v6.16.y on top of what is already queued
> there.

It's already in a release :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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