From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] drm/radeon/kms: update pm code Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 22:23:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20100507212316.GB28906@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1273266980-20982-1-git-send-email-alexdeucher@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk (cavan.codon.org.uk [93.93.128.6]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FA69E975 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 14:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1273266980-20982-1-git-send-email-alexdeucher@gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Alex Deucher Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:16:11PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > "auto" selects between low and high power states based on the whether the system > is on battery power or not. Even lower power states are selected when the monitors > are in the dpms off state. Beyond the constraints imposed in terms of some modes not being available on battery, I'd prefer to leave the ac/battery decision up to userspace. Having it be default behaviour at the kernel level is plausibly confusing. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org