From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: don't register the connector Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:40:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20160922124046.GW1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <20160808160402.GA24667@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20160809060724.GD6232@phenom.ffwll.local> <20160809224812.GJ1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160921085738.GA27277@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20160921162803.GS1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160922103917.GA5632@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20160922105155.GT1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160922120957.GU1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sean Paul Cc: Daniel Vetter , Brian Starkey , Liviu.Dudau@arm.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , dri-devel List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 05:32:35AM -0700, Sean Paul wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:22:40AM -0700, Sean Paul wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > >> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:39:18AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote: > >> >> Actually, could you please hold off picking this up? We need to make > >> >> changes in mali-dp and hdlcd or this will mess up their registration. > >> >> I will send those patches later today, but better if this all goes in > >> >> together (whenever that ends up being). > >> > > >> > Sorry, but I'm annoyed with this - the impression being given was that > >> > I was holding up this patch by not testing it on Armada, and I brought > >> > up the issue about registration at the beginning of this. > >> > > >> > Now we're _just_ finding out that there are drivers where removing the > >> > connector registration in tda998x causes them to break? It's a bit > >> > late to be checking your own drivers when you've been chasing me... > >> > > >> > Sorry, but it sounds like we're not ready to make this change - and as > >> > it's the very last day that changes will appear in linux-next prior to > >> > the merge window (assuming Linus releases 4.8 on Sunday), I'd suggest > >> > holding off until after the merge window is over, so we can get some > >> > testing with these other two drivers with this change in place. > >> > > >> > >> sigh. I just pushed my queue to drm-misc, which included this patch. > >> Sounds like I should revert? > > > > Why did you do push it _without_ an ack from the maintainer of the > > driver when the comments on the list were clearly indicating that it > > was waiting for testing and such an ack? > > > > Daniel Acked it on the list on 7/25, and you acked it yesterday asking > it to be merged to -misc. What am I missing? Sorry, I thought you were some random person maintaining some random tree who'd submitted a pull request to be merged into drm-misc. If you are in fact the drm-misc maintainer, please add yourself to the MAINTAINERS file so that everyone knows who you are. Thanks. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.