linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/21] drm/i915: Check eDP power when doing aux channel communications

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Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:01:06 -0700
From:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/21] drm/i915: Check eDP power when doing aux channel communications

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:02:42 +0200, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:

> Use pp_control instead of re-reading?

Could, but you'll note a later patch eliminates both pp_status and
pp_control local variables, so I didn't bother to clean this up when
refactoring.

> dp_aux_ch does the low-level io for the below, so either this one or the
> below three hunks look a bit redundant.

Yeah, probably not necessary. I just added checks everywhere I could
think of to try and figure out where power was not being applied when
needed.

Should I bother to include this patch in the series at all? It's purely
for diagnostics to make sure the panel is powered during all aux channel
transactions.

-- 
keith.packard@...el.com

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