Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933351AbbDITiu (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 15:38:50 -0400 Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net ([194.109.24.25]:35856 "EHLO lb2-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933055AbbDITit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 15:38:49 -0400 Message-ID: <1428608325.13881.37.camel@x220> Subject: Re: drm/msm/mdp5: undefined CONFIG_MSM_BUS_SCALING From: Paul Bolle To: Rob Clark Cc: Greg KH , Valentin Rothberg , Hai Li , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , David Airlie , rupran@einserver.de, stefan.hengelein@fau.de Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:38:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <20150409112240.GA4748@station.rsr.lip6.fr> <20150409142024.GA3040@kroah.com> <20150409170707.GA7742@kroah.com> <1428603178.13881.20.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 (3.10.4-4.fc20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 882 Lines: 20 On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 14:54 -0400, Rob Clark wrote: > We are talking about a driver which does build and run on > upstream kernel, and which has a few small #ifdef blocks to simplify > backporting to downstream kernels (which we still do need to use for > some generations and some devices) This has comes up before too. My thoughts are basically that since it's just a few blocks of code (I think we're discussing less than 200 lines of code split over nine files here) it's hard to see why it would be such a burden to carry those blocks in a separate tree until everything can be submitted in actual working condition. Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/