On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:05:44AM -0700, Clayton Craft wrote:
On 3/24/25 06:24, Johan Hovold wrote:
The PMIC GLINK driver is currently generating DisplayPort hotplug notifications whenever something is connected to (or disconnected from) a port regardless of the type of notification sent by the firmware.
These notifications are forwarded to user space by the DRM subsystem as connector "change" uevents:
Clayton reported seeing display flickering with recent RC kernels, which may possibly be related to these spurious events being generated with even greater frequency.
That still remains to be fully understood, but the spurious events, that on the X13s are generated every 90 seconds, should be fixed either way.
When a display/dock (which has ethernet) is connected, I see this hotplug change event 2 times (every 30 seconds) which I think you said this is expected now?
I didn't realise you were also using a display/dock. Bjorn mentioned that he has noticed issues with one of his monitors (e.g. built-in hub reenumerating repeatedly iirc) which may be related.
I see these pairs of identical notification when connecting the stock charger to one of the ports directly, and I noticed that they repeat every 90 seconds here. After plugging and unplugging a bunch of devices I think they stopped at one point, but they were there again after a reboot.
So there's something going on with the PMIC GLINK firmware or driver on the X13s. I did not see these repeated messages on the T14s with just a charger (and I don't have a dock to test with).
UDEV [236.150574] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [236.588696] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [266.208175] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [266.644710] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [296.243187] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [296.678177] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [326.276256] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm) UDEV [326.712248] change /devices/platform/soc@0/ae00000.display-subsystem/ae01000.display-controller/drm/card0 (drm)
Not sure about you seeing it every 90s vs my 30s... anyways, I no longer see these events when a PD charger is connected though, so this patch seems to help with that!
Just so I understand you correctly here, you're no longer seeing the repeated uevents with this patch? Both when using a dock and when using a charger directly?
Did it help with the display flickering too? Was that only on the external display?
Tested-by: Clayton Craft clayton@craftyguy.net
Thanks for testing.
Johan