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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Cc: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org, Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
	Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>, David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, quic_jesszhan@quicinc.com,
	swboyd@chromium.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm/dp: add module parameter for PSR
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 16:22:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZG4dry_GOJPSyrWC@hovoldconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f2556e2-52ab-eb1d-b388-52546044f460@linaro.org>

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 11:06:03AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On 24/05/2023 09:59, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > Regressions happen and sometimes there are corner cases that are harder
> > to find, but this is a breakage of a fundamental feature that was
> > reported before the code was even merged into mainline.
> > 
> >> We should have ideally gone with the modparam with the feature patches
> >> itself knowing that it gets enabled for all sinks if PSR is supported.
> > 
> > Modparams are things of the past should not be used to enable broken
> > features so that some vendor can tick of their internal lists of
> > features that have been "mainlined".
> 
> We have had a history of using modparam with i915 and IIRC amdgpu / 
> radeon drivers to allow users to easily check whether new feature works 
> for their hardware. My current understanding is that PSR+VT works for on 
> some laptops and doesn't on some other laptops, which makes it a valid case.

But here it does not seem to be the hardware that's the issue, but
rather that the implementation is incorrect or incomplete.

Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-24 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-27 23:28 [PATCH] drm/msm/dp: add module parameter for PSR Abhinav Kumar
2023-05-12 18:13 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2023-05-23 15:24   ` Johan Hovold
2023-05-23 19:23     ` Abhinav Kumar
2023-05-23 19:52       ` Rob Clark
2023-05-24  6:59       ` Johan Hovold
2023-05-24  8:06         ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2023-05-24 14:22           ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2023-05-24 17:13           ` Doug Anderson
2023-05-30 14:58             ` Johan Hovold

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