Re: [PATCH 08/23] drm/via: use drm_mm instead of drm_sman

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 04:28:45PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > Chris Wilson rightly complained that this doesn't explain the list_del
> > magic going on. New commit msg reads:
> > 
> >     To make the transition in a piece-wise and bisectable way possible,
> >     I've hijacked the ->owner_list from drm_sman. While transitioning, the
> >     list_add was done by the driver, while the list_del was still done by
> >     the dying sman code.
> >     
> >     Now that we are in full control of ->owner_list, do the list_del
> >     ourselves.
> > 
> > He also noted the superflous additions of INIT_LIST_HEAD and the stale
> > comment about spinlock locking in the idr allocation (protected by
> > dev->struct_mutex) that I've copied over. All fixed up and pushed out for
> > the moment to my fdo repo:
> > 
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/log/?h=kill-with-fire
> 
> Speaking of I attempted to clone that repo but it gives me
> 
> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

It's a headless git repo, so you have to check out a specific branch
explicitly. Simplest way to do so is with

git fetch <repo> <branch>

in an exisiting lk git checkout which should grab that branch into
FETCH_HEAD. Then you can check it out, merge it, ...
-Daniel
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