On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The goal is to make it so that when you *do* set a mode, DPMS gets set >> to ON (as the monitor will actually be "on" at that point). Here's a >> patch which does the DPMS_ON precisely when setting a mode. > > Ok, patch looks sane, but it does leave me with the "what about the > 'fb_changed' case?" question. Is that case basically guaranteed to not > change any existing dpms state?
Yes its inconsistent behaviour but nothing in the fb_changed case will affect the DPMS state. I expect we should probably do that so all paths via that function turn DPMS on, and it'll be consistent, might be something for 39. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
