[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Don't lock panel registers when downclocking

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Feb 13 11:08:31 CET 2012


On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 05:31:30PM -0500, Sean Paul wrote:
> This patch removes the locking from the downclock routines since we are no
> longer locking the registers at all. See ed10fca9 for the original commit
> changing this philosophy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>

I've thought this was due to paranoia because we don't trust our own code
and because we don't trust the bios to randomly lock this again. Without
any reasons to the contrary, I'll prefer to keep this.

Yours, Daniel
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