[PATCH 6.1.y-cip 2/5] [PARTIAL BACKPORT]drm: Add an HPD poll helper to reschedule the poll work

[nicusor.huhulea at siemens.com]

thank you for your review! :)

I'll refine the series as I forgot to add all the authors/participants, therefore the confusion on the context/issue


Nicu

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From: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 4:38 PM
To: Huhulea, Nicusor Liviu (FT FDS CES LX PBU 1)
Cc: cip-dev at lists.cip-project.org; Imre Deak; stable at vger.kernel.org; Dmitry Baryshkov; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; Jouni Högander; Rodrigo Vivi
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1.y-cip 2/5] [PARTIAL BACKPORT]drm: Add an HPD poll helper to reschedule the poll work

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 03:54:24PM +0300, Nicusor Huhulea wrote:
> From: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
>
> Add a helper to reschedule drm_mode_config::output_poll_work after
> polling has been enabled for a connector (and needing a reschedule,
> since previously polling was disabled for all connectors and hence
> output_poll_work was not running).
>
> This is needed by the next patch fixing HPD polling on i915.
>
> CC: stable at vger.kernel.org # 6.4+
> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Reviewed-by: Jouni Högander <jouni.hogander at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230822113015.41224-1-imre.deak@intel.com
> (cherry picked from commit fe2352fd64029918174de4b460dfe6df0c6911cd)
> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> Partial-Backport-by: Nicusor Huhulea <nicusor.huhulea at siemens.com>

What does "Partial-Backport-by:" mean?  I don't see that in the
documentation files as a valid tag to put in kernel commits :(

confused,

greg k-h