linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 08/17] drm/edid: Add 6 bpc quirk for BOE panel.

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:33:18 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
To:     sashal@...nel.org, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        shawn.c.lee@...el.com, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>, cooper.chiou@...el.com,
        Lee@...nom.ffwll.local, dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 08/17] drm/edid: Add 6 bpc quirk for BOE panel.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:31 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: "Lee, Shawn C" <shawn.c.lee@...el.com>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 922dceff8dc1fb4dafc9af78139ba65671408103 ]
> >
> > BOE panel (ID: 0x0771) that reports "DFP 1.x compliant TMDS".
> > But it's 6bpc panel only instead of 8 bpc.
> >
> > Add panel ID to edid quirk list and set 6 bpc as default to
> > work around this issue.
> >
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>
> > Cc: Cooper Chiou <cooper.chiou@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lee, Shawn C <shawn.c.lee@...el.com>>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> > Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1540792173-7288-1-git-send-email-shawn.c.lee@intel.com
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>
> Given that I'm not a fan of AUTOSEL at all: This one here is correctly
> cherry-picked for stable, ack.

An idea that just crossed my mind: Could we integrate this into 0day
and suggest cc: stable before the patch even gets merged? Or is the
heuristics not good enough for that kind of automation?
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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