Re: [PATCH] DRM / i915: Fix resume regression on MSI Wind U100 w/o KMS

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Jan 08 2010 - 19:21:28 EST


On Saturday 09 January 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Commit cbda12d77ea590082edb6d30bd342a67ebc459e0 (drm/i915: implement
> > new pm ops for i915), among other things, removed the .suspend and
> > .resume pointers from the struct drm_driver object in i915_drv.c,
> > which broke resume without KMS on my MSI Wind U100.
> >
> > Fix this by reverting that part of commit cbda12d77ea59.
>
> Hmm. I get the feeling that perhaps the of the drm_driver callbacks was
> very muchintentional, and that the code presumably wants to be called
> purely through the PCI layer, and not through the "drm class" logic at
> all?
>
> Your patch seems like it would always execute the silly class suspend even
> though we explicitly don't want to. And a much nicer fix would seem to
> register the thing properly as a PCI driver even if you don't then use
> KMS.
>
> So it looks to me like the problem is that drm_init() will register the
> driver as a real PCI driver only if
>
> driver->driver_features & DRIVER_MODESET
>
> and otherwise it does that very odd "stealth mode manual scanning" thing
> which doesn't register it as a proper PCI driver.
>
> So could we instead make that "disable KSM" _just_ disable the mode
> setting part, not disable the "I'm a real driver" part?

Hmm. Do you mean set DRIVER_MODESET unconditionally before calling drm_init()
and only reset it later if necessary?

Rafael
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