Re: Drop 0fc6fea41c71 ("drm/i915: Disable DC states for all commits") from the 6.0.y series?

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Aug 09 2023 - 05:16:00 EST


On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi Greg! Months ago you picked up mainline commit a2b6e99d8a6
> ("drm/i915: Disable DC states for all commits") for the 6.1.23 release
> as commit 0fc6fea41c71. It causes issues vor a few people (at least
> three, two of which are CCed) -- apparently because it depends on some
> change that wasn't picked up for 6.1.y. This is known for a while now,
> but nobody has yet found which change that is (Al found something that
> worked for him, but that didn't work for others). For the whole story
> skim this ticket:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8419
>
> I wonder if it might be better if you revert that commit for 6.0.y; I
> asked already in the ticket if this is likely to cause regressions for
> users of 6.0.y, but got no answer from the i915 devs (or did I miss
> something?). :-/

Now reverted (note, 6.0.y is long dead, I reverted this for 6.1.y)

thanks,

greg "drowning in kernel release numbers" k-h