Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18;
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <c5563eeea36aae7bd72ea2e985bc610d585ece40.1604128639.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
 <20201106105058.GA2801856@kroah.com> <20201110124946.GF401619@phenom.ffwll.local>
 <20201110132445.GA2483842@PWN>
In-Reply-To: <20201110132445.GA2483842@PWN>
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:46:20 +0100
Message-ID: <CAKMK7uFiCTu9bz1uJqmCvwBSUK4XmuVyRf2C-U=zoArZMb0Pgg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] console: Remove dummy con_font_op() callback implementations
To:     Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
        Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
        "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
        George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
        Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Precedence: bulk

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:24 PM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:49:46PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Peilin, can you pls resend this together with all the other pending
> > patches from you? I think that's better than me trying to cherry-pick the
> > bits we decided to keep from random places.
>
> Oh, are we doing an -rc3 backmerge soon? At the moment I can base these
> patches on neither drm-misc (due to the font_copy removal), nor mainline
> (due to the signedness issue in font_desc we've talked about), so I'm
> waiting for a backmerge to rebase everything properly. Sorry that I
> didn't mention earlier.

linux-next has all the trees, so you can always use that. And yes I'm
pushing the backmerge through, so in a few days at most I can pull in
all your patches. Meanwhile you can base your work of linux-next.

> > Greg, ok if I just pull these in through drm-misc-next? It's a pretty bad
> > hairball anyway and that avoids the tree coordination issues. Only thing
> > that might get in the way is the vt font_copy removal, but that's in -rc3
> > so easy to backmerge.
>
> I will rebase and send everything (including the font_copy
> garbage-collecting) in a v3 series after the backmerge. Thanks,

No need to be blocked on a backmerge, this is only needed for merging
the patches. Development should not be blocked like this.
-Daniel

>
> Peilin Ye
>


-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch