Hi Nick,

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:40:19PM +0800, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:23:30 -0800,
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't know what caused this to trigger, but I'm adding both the
> > i915 people and the HDA people to the cc, and they can fight to the
> > death about this in the HDMI Thunderdome.
> 
> It must be the new addition of ELD-passing code.
> 
> Fengguang, can the drm or i915 driver check whether ELD is changed or
> not?  Writing ELD at each time even when unchanged confuses the audio
> side, as if the monitor is hotplugged.

The attached patch is tested OK to prevent extra hot plug events.

However it has one side effect: when HDMI monitor is hot removed,
the ELD keeps remain valid. I need to find a way to test for the
presence of the monitor and handle that case as well. When all done,
I'll submit the patches together for review.

Thanks,
Fengguang