disable drm_kms_helper polling in kernel 2.6.35

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Nov 4 16:30:52 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 05:23:09PM +0300, macachuto wrote:
 > Dear All.
 > 
 > I would like to ask, when it will be possible to have kernel 2.6.35 with 
 > /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll to disable "hotplug" polling.
 > 
 > I have laptop with i915GM video and experience mouse cursor freezes every 10 second.
 > 
 > This is all about:  issue with "hotplug" polling on those systems, 
 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29536.
 > Kernel 2.6.36 already has drm_kms_helper module parameter, but 2.6.35 still doesn't.

f14 should be getting a .36 update fairly soon.

	Dave



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