[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: kill i915.powersave

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Mar 25 06:45:14 PDT 2015


On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 08:50:34PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:40:09PM -0700, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > This flag was being mostly used as a meta flag in some
> > cases and not covering other cases.
> > 
> > One of the risks is that it was masking some frontbuffer
> > trackings without disabling PSR.
> > 
> > So, better to kill this at once and avoid umbrella parameters.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> 
> Agreed. Its purpose was never entirely clear and its value in debugging
> was the same as using an elephant gun to shot at a gnat.
> 
> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
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