[PATCH] drm: call connector->dpms(OFF) when disabling

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thinking about modern hw, I'd probably only expose connectors and
> monitors (or maybe call them displays).  You could hang backlight
> controls and brightness, etc on the monitor objects.  Also you could
> have a multiple monitors connected to a single connector (DP 1.2 or
> virtual adapters (wireless or remote display for example)).
> Everything else (crtcs, plls, encoders, etc.) would be driver
> controlled and validated.

Yeah, that's pretty much my idea, too. For backwards-compat we could
expose a fake encoder for each connector, but essentially ignore it in
the generic modeset code.
-Daniel
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