Comment 45 for bug 1796720

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In , alexdeucher (alexdeucher-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to quirin.blaeser from comment #25)
> (In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #24)
> > This patch shouldn't have been applied to 4.18. It looks like it was
> > autoselected:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/15/172
> > It should be reverted.
>
> So "[...]the display component was requesting minimum clocks[...]" isn´t an
> issue with Polaris?
> Is there any QA left?
> Avoiding unusual units is a good idea generally, but it should happen very
> early in development.

It was a fix for fallout from an interface refactor we did in 4.19 that mixed up the units between display and power. We did not intend to have the patch applied to 4.18 and we did not flag the patch for 4.18, it was flagged for 4.18 by someone else outside of AMD.