Martin Peres <[email protected]> writes: > On 11/04/17 04:47, Eric Anholt wrote: >> Martin Peres <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> Upon receiving a hot-plug event, we iterate through the connectors to >>> re-apply the currently-set mode on all the connectors that have a >>> link-status property set to BAD. This modeset may fail immediatly if >>> the kernel has already pruned the mode we are trying to set but it >>> does not matter as -modesetting has no business picking another >>> mode if the modeset did fail. To make users aware of this problem >> >> I think I'd like to replace the "This modeset" sentence with "The kernel >> may be able to get the link to work by dropping to using a lower link >> bpp (with the same display bpp). However, the modeset may fail if the >> kernel has pruned the mode, so to make users aware..." Does that sound >> good to you? > > Yep, nice improvement. Thanks!
Pushed. Thanks, and sorry this took *so* long.
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