From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Woody Suwalski Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:36:29 -0400 Message-ID: <5358325D.6010409@gmail.com> References: <2619529.mEMJol0YfM@grover> <1549585.kmUPduLgev@grover> <10435496.M4aSBzoVye@grover> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Airlie , Linus Torvalds Cc: Ed Tomlinson , Linux Kernel Mailing List , DRI mailing list , =?UTF-8?B?Q2hyaXN0aWE=?= =?UTF-8?B?biBLw7ZuaWc=?= List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Dave Airlie wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> Dave, mind sending me a pull request for drm fixes? >> >> There's now at least these two: >> >> - "drm/radeon/aux: fix hpd assignment for aux bus" >> - "drm/radeon: use fixed PPL ref divider if needed" >> >> that look like fairly fatal regressions when they affect somebody. >> >> The fact that we already had *two* independent bugs be reported within >> days of that last out-of-merge-window pull request makes me very >> unhappy with the state of drm pulls. >> >> So please make sure that future fixes really are *fixes*. For >> regressions only. No more games like this. > The pll fallout is fixes for the initial feature that was in the merge window, > Tuning plls for monitors is always a pain in the ass, the previous algorithm > took a couple of kernels a few years back to get where it was, unfortunately > HDMI came along and showed up a bunch of its shortcomings. I'm happy > Alex and Christian are on top of things in terms of tracking regressions > and making sure they get fixed, > > the AUX fix yes I'm a bit pissed off about myself, but I missed a pull > from a few > weeks ago, felt guilty, and maybe should have chosen the other path and let it > wait a merge, > > Christian just sent me a -fixes pull with all of these in it and I'll > send it on to you > in a few mins. > > Dave. > That patch also fixes a shimmering (water floating) issue on Radeon RV635 (Thinkpad T500) 1002:9591