Subject: [PATCH] drm: i2c: tda998x: Retry fetching the EDID if it fails first time.

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Jackson)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:02:39 +0000

On 11/28/14 08:19, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:41:26 +0000
> Andrew Jackson <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> Fetching the EDID from a connected monitor is an automated thing
>> with NXP TDA19988. But on some boards the fetching fails for the
>> first time silently without any indication that an error has occured.
>> More than that, subsequent fetches of the EDID succeed until the
>> monitor(s) are unplugged.
>>
>> Add a function to validate the read EDID and retry if the block
>> retrieved is not valid.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jackson <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <[email-masked]>
> 
> It seems that your patch is deprecated by Laurent Pinchart's
> 	[PATCH] drm: tda998x: Use drm_do_get_edid()
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-November/072906.html
> 

Thank you for the heads-up, I'd not seen that.  I'll consider how my patch might be modified to suit the new infrastructure.

    Andrew