From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fb_ddc: Fix DDC lines quirk
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:40:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195418404.6638.2.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071118142141.22a1e753@hyperion.delvare>
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 14:21 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
> On top of that, as it appears that this code has been broken for one
> year now and nobody seems to have complained, I'm curious if it makes
> sense to keep this quirk in place. It makes the code more complex and
> slower just for the sake of monitors which I guess nobody uses
> anymore. Can't we just get rid of it?
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
I'll have to double check, I suspect some Apple monitors may choke on
the "proper" way of releasing the lines (shut down assuming no more host
is connected, some stupid trick they do). I'll test when I get a chance.
Regarding the quirk, well... I think the X folks are tempted to get rid
of it too.
Ben.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-18 13:21 [PATCH] fb_ddc: Fix DDC lines quirk Jean Delvare
2007-11-18 20:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-11-21 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-23 19:53 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-23 21:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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