Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S941694AbcJYKlE (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2016 06:41:04 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:44354 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932843AbcJYKlC (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2016 06:41:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:40:59 +0100 From: Brian Starkey To: Russell King , dri-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: jsarha@ti.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: tda998x: mali-dp: hdlcd: refactor connector registration Message-ID: <20161025104059.GE1988@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20161024142312.GA1988@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <1477319279-21726-1-git-send-email-brian.starkey@arm.com> <20161024143627.GT20761@phenom.ffwll.local> <20161024145202.GB1988@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20161025095233.GD1988@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20161025101919.35c53zoyf435urp3@phenom.ffwll.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161025101919.35c53zoyf435urp3@phenom.ffwll.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1164 Lines: 29 On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:19:19PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: >On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:52:33AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote: > >Ah, makes sense. Should I apply this to drm-misc so it's in a shared tree? Honestly, I don't know. I didn't entirely follow what it was Russell wanted in terms of getting this merged: >On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 02:40:22PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >>So, what I would like to see is a single patch against Linus' 4.8.0 >>commit fixing mali-dp, hdlcd and any other driver, together with >>removing drm_connector_register() from TDA998x. This is so the patch >>can be shared between all interested parties without forcing everyone >>to 4.9-rc1. Looking at the diff between 4.8 and 4.9-rc1 for >>drivers/gpu/drm/arm, that shouldn't result in any merge conflicts - >>and if you want to follow on from that with 4.9-rc1 development, you >>can always merge 4.9-rc1 on top of that commit. Looks like Jyri's series which depends on this is also dependent on Russell's tree, so might be best to wait for him to get back online. -Brian >-Daniel >-- >Daniel Vetter >Software Engineer, Intel Corporation >http://blog.ffwll.ch >