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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To: David Weinehall <david.weinehall@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH i-g-t] RFC: split PM workarounds into separate lib
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 15:42:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151208134227.GR4437@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449564640-6001-1-git-send-email-david.weinehall@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:50:39AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> Since the defaults for some external power management related settings
> prevents us from testing our power management functionality properly,
> we have to work around it. Currently this is done from the individual
> test cases, but this is sub-optimal.  This patch moves the PM-related
> workarounds into a separate library, and adds some code to restore the
> previous settings for the SATA link power management while at it.

Why is it called "workarounds"? That gives me the impression we're
working around something that's supposed to work but doesn't. That's not
the case here.

> 
> This patch should be seen as a RFC; there might be other workarounds
> for external issues that should be moved into the library, and if those
> workarounds aren't related to power management it might be better to
> choose a different name for the library.
> 
> David Weinehall (1):
>   lib/pm_workarounds: Lib for PM workarounds
> 
>  lib/Makefile.sources |   2 +
>  lib/igt.h            |   1 +
>  lib/igt_aux.c        |  15 +---
>  lib/pm_workarounds.c | 233 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/pm_workarounds.h |  31 +++++++
>  tests/pm_lpsp.c      |  25 +-----
>  tests/pm_rpm.c       |  29 ++-----
>  7 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/pm_workarounds.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/pm_workarounds.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.6.2
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-08 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-08  8:50 [PATCH i-g-t] RFC: split PM workarounds into separate lib David Weinehall
2015-12-08  8:50 ` [PATCH i-g-t] lib/pm_workarounds: Lib for PM workarounds David Weinehall
2015-12-08 13:22 ` [PATCH i-g-t] RFC: split PM workarounds into separate lib Zanoni, Paulo R
2015-12-10 16:05   ` David Weinehall
2015-12-08 13:42 ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2015-12-08 19:05   ` Paulo Zanoni
2015-12-10 10:09     ` Daniel Vetter
2015-12-10 15:55       ` David Weinehall
2015-12-10 16:01   ` David Weinehall
2015-12-11 17:03     ` Daniel Vetter
2015-12-15  9:14 ` [PATCH i-g-t v2] Add a lib for power management helpers David Weinehall
2015-12-15  9:14   ` [PATCH i-g-t] lib/igt_pm: Lib for power management David Weinehall
2015-12-18 19:27     ` Thomas Wood
2016-02-11  7:25 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Add a lib for power management helpers David Weinehall
2016-02-11  7:25   ` [PATCH v3 1/1] lib/igt_pm: Lib for power management David Weinehall
2016-02-11  8:27   ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Add a lib for power management helpers Daniel Vetter

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