[PATCH] drm: bridge: dw-hdmi: Avoid resetting force in the detect function

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 10:53:22AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Russell,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 07:17:47PM +1100, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> > It has been observed that resetting force in the detect function can
> > result in the PHY being powered down in response to hot-plug detect
> > being asserted, even when the HDMI connector is forced on.
> > 
> > Enabling debug messages and adding a call to dump_stack() in
> > dw_hdmi_phy_power_off() shows the following in dmesg:
> > [  160.637413] dwhdmi-rockchip ff940000.hdmi: EVENT=plugin
> > [  160.637433] dwhdmi-rockchip ff940000.hdmi: PHY powered down in 0 iterations
> > 
> > Call trace:
> > dw_hdmi_phy_power_off
> > dw_hdmi_phy_disable
> > dw_hdmi_update_power
> > dw_hdmi_detect
> > dw_hdmi_connector_detect
> > drm_helper_probe_detect_ctx
> > drm_helper_hpd_irq_event
> > dw_hdmi_irq
> > irq_thread_fn
> > irq_thread
> > kthread
> > ret_from_fork
> > 
> > Fixes: 381f05a7a842 ("drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: add connector mode forcing")
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
> 
> you are the original author of this code - any comments on this patch?

No further comments beyond what has already been discussed, and the
long and short of it is it's been so long that I don't remember why
that code was there. Given that, I'm not even in a position to ack
the change. Sorry.

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