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    drm/i915: don't disable disconnected outputs · b0a2658a
    Daniel Vetter authored
    This piece of neat lore has been ported painstakingly and bug-for-bug
    compatible from the old crtc helper code.
    
    Imo it's utter nonsense.
    
    If you disconnected a cable and before you reconnect it, userspace (or
    the kernel) does an set_crtc call, this will result in that connector
    getting disabled. Which will result in a nice black screen when
    plugging in the cable again.
    
    There's absolutely no reason the kernel does such policy enforcements
    - if userspace tries to set up a mode on something disconnected we
    might fail loudly (since the dp link training fails), but silently
    adjusting the output configuration behind userspace's back is a recipe
    for disaster. Specifically I think that this could explain some of our
    MI_WAIT hangs around suspend, where userspace issues a scanline wait
    on a disable pipe. This mechanisims here could explain how that pipe
    got disabled without userspace noticing.
    
    Note that this fixes a NULL deref at BIOS takeover when the firmware
    sets up a disconnected output in a clone configuration with a
    connected output on the 2nd pipe: When doing the full modeset we don't
    have a mode for the 2nd pipe and OOPS. On the first pipe this doesn't
    matter, since at boot-up the fbdev helpers will set up the choosen
    configuration on that on first. Since this is now the umptenth bug
    around handling this imo brain-dead semantics correctly, I think it's
    time to kill it and see whether there's any userspace out there which
    relies on this.
    
    It also nicely demonstrates that we have a tiny window where DP
    hotplug can still kill the driver.
    
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58396
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Tested-by: default avatarPeter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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