From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH]: Fix radeon blanking return value.
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:20:16 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070228.162016.74750990.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
If you'll recall, over a year ago, I pointed out that the current
Radeon driver erroneously returns -EINVAL for valid blanking codes,
here is a link to that thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/28/6
No other driver does this, and it confuses the X server into thinking
that the device does not support blanking properly.
As a result I have to switch to a console VC and back to the X server
to unblank the screen, which is rediculious.
I've had to do this for more than 3 years and I'm really tired of this
problem still being around :-)
I looked again and there is simply no reason for the Radeon driver to
return -EINVAL for FB_BLANK_NORMAL. It claims it wants to do this in
order to convince fbcon to blank in software, right here:
if (fb_blank(info, blank))
fbcon_generic_blank(vc, info, blank);
to software blank the screen. But it only causes that to happen
in the FB_BLANK_NORMAL case.
That makes no sense because the Radeon code does this:
val |= CRTC_DISPLAY_DIS;
in the FB_BLANK_NORMAL case so should be blanking the hardware, and
there is therefore no reason to SW blank by returning -EINVAL.
Therefore I propose we finally apply the following patch. No other
fbdev driver does this madness, and as I've shown above there is no
justification for the behavior at all :-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c b/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
index c32b714..af7eb07 100644
--- a/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
+++ b/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
@@ -1032,8 +1032,7 @@ int radeon_screen_blank(struct radeonfb_info *rinfo, int blank, int mode_switch)
break;
}
- /* let fbcon do a soft blank for us */
- return (blank == FB_BLANK_NORMAL) ? -EINVAL : 0;
+ return 0;
}
static int radeonfb_blank (int blank, struct fb_info *info)
next reply other threads:[~2007-03-01 0:20 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-01 0:20 David Miller [this message]
2007-03-01 1:56 ` [PATCH]: Fix radeon blanking return value Antonino A. Daplas
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