Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751700AbdHCRh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:37:58 -0400 Received: from lelnx193.ext.ti.com ([198.47.27.77]:24307 "EHLO lelnx193.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751144AbdHCRh5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:37:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/29] drm/tilcdc: switch to drm_*{get,put} helpers To: Daniel Vetter CC: Cihangir Akturk , Tomi Valkeinen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , dri-devel References: <1501761585-11757-1-git-send-email-cakturk@gmail.com> <1501761585-11757-24-git-send-email-cakturk@gmail.com> <3ed06ee9-6c17-2cb3-f1c4-72901ef7dc17@ti.com> From: Jyri Sarha Message-ID: <5a40c590-68fc-0e49-a08a-64a3e46b8950@ti.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:37:52 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-GB X-EXCLAIMER-MD-CONFIG: e1e8a2fd-e40a-4ac6-ac9b-f7e9cc9ee180 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id v73Hc5Ph030175 Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 33  Texas Instruments Finland Oy, Porkkalankatu 22, 00180 Helsinki. Y-tunnus/Business ID: 0615521-4. Kotipaikka/Domicile: Helsinki On 08/03/17 18:42, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Jyri Sarha wrote: >> >> On 08/03/17 14:58, Cihangir Akturk wrote: >>> drm_*_reference() and drm_*_unreference() functions are just >>> compatibility alias for drm_*_get() and drm_*_put() adn should not be >>> used by new code. So convert all users of compatibility functions to use >>> the new APIs. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Cihangir Akturk >> Acked-by: Jyri Sarha >> >> This appears to be a part of a larger series. So I guess it will go in >> via drm-misc. But if this is not the case just let me know and I'll add >> this to my next pull request. > Only if you join drm-misc and push it there yourself :-) > > In general I prefer driver maintainers pick up their stuff for patch > series which don't have depencies like this here, otherwise, why > exactly do we have driver maintainers. > I assumed that the series would deprecate drm_framebuffer_unreference() and -reference() aliases (if we are cleaning things up, why wouldn't we go all the way?). But if that is not the case, then by all means I'll pick the patch for a 4.14 tilcdc pull request. Cheers, Jyri