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Commit 0bb9c2b2 authored by Dhinakaran Pandiyan's avatar Dhinakaran Pandiyan Committed by Ville Syrjälä
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drm/dp/mst: Sideband message transaction to power up/down nodes



The POWER_DOWN_PHY and POWER_UP_PHY sideband message transactions allow
the source to reqest any node in a mst path or a whole path to be
powered down or up. This allows drivers to target a specific sink in the
MST topology, an improvement over just power managing the imediate
downstream device. Secondly, since the request-reply protocol waits for an
ACK, we can be sure that a downstream sink has enough time to respond to a
power up/down request.

v2: Fix memory leak (Lyude)
Cc: Lyude <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170907001458.9399-1-dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarLyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVille Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
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