[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: fix gen4 digital port hotplug definitions

[Jan Niggemann]

Hi list,

Am 26.07.2013 21:46, schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:54:22PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:21:48PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>> > > Apparently Bspec is wrong in this case here even for gm45. Note 
>> that
>> > > Bspec is horribly misguided on i965g/gm, so we don't have any 
>> other
>> > > data points besides that it seems to make machines work better.
>> > >
>> > > With this changes all the bits in PORT_HOTPLUG_STAT for the 
>> digital
>> > > ports are ordered the same way. This seems to agree with what 
>> register
>> > > dumps from the hpd storm handling code shows, where the LIVE bit 
>> and
>> > > the short/long pulse STATUS bits light up at the same time with 
>> this
>> > > enumeration (but no with the one from Bspec).
>> >
>> > Would a comment about this near the #defines be in order? To avoid 
>> the
>> > "these values are all wrong per bspec" patches.
>>
>> Yeah, good idea, I'll add a comment when merging this.
>
> Done and merged with your irc-ack.
this made it in 3.11, is there any chance GKH will also merge this into 
3.10 longterm?
I'm too new in kernel development... What would need to be done to 
achieve that?

Regards
Jan