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Date:   Sat, 2 Apr 2022 21:37:43 +0200
From:   Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
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        tzimmermann@suse.de, airlied@linux.ie, daniel@ffwll.ch,
        dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.17 001/149] drm: Add orientation quirk for GPD
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Le Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 11:14:58AM +0200, Hans de Goede a ?crit :
> Hi,
> 
> On 4/1/22 22:33, Anisse Astier wrote:
> > Hi Sasha,
> > 
> > Le Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 10:23:08AM -0400, Sasha Levin a ?crit :
> >> From: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
> >>
> >> [ Upstream commit 0b464ca3e0dd3cec65f28bc6d396d82f19080f69 ]
> >>
> >> Panel is 800x1280, but mounted on a laptop form factor, sideways.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
> >> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> >> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211229222200.53128-3-anisse@astier.eu
> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > 
> > I don't think this patch will be very useful, because it won't fix the
> > device's display orientation without the previous patch it came with,
> > titled "drm/i915/opregion: add support for mailbox #5 EDID"
> > (e35d8762b04f89f9f5a188d0c440d3a2c1d010ed); while I'd like both to be
> > added
> 
> Well actually it will already put e.g. the text console the right way up
> since efifb also uses this quirks and gives a hint to fbcon to rotate
> the text. So it is not entirely useless.
> 
> And since all quirks added to drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel_orientation_quirks.c
> typically get backported having this one in place now will avoid conflicts
> with future backports.
> 
> That combined with not really seeing a downside to already having
> this in place even without the i915 support being sorted out makes
> me lean more towards the direction of believing that having this
> in 5.17 is fine...
> 

Good points; lets's keep it in the stable queues.

Thanks,

Anisse