[PATCH 0/9] drm/radeon/kms: update pm code

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:16:11PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:

> "auto" selects between low and high power states based on the whether the system
> is on battery power or not.  Even lower power states are selected when the monitors
> are in the dpms off state.

Beyond the constraints imposed in terms of some modes not being 
available on battery, I'd prefer to leave the ac/battery decision up to 
userspace. Having it be default behaviour at the kernel level is 
plausibly confusing.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org