From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4B9C433DF for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:26:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 349CE2067C for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:26:02 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 349CE2067C Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ravnborg.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AC66E82C; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asavdk4.altibox.net (asavdk4.altibox.net [109.247.116.15]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B92E96E82C for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ravnborg.org (unknown [188.228.123.71]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by asavdk4.altibox.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7FE8B804AF; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:25:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:25:51 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: John Stultz Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/49] DRM driver for Hikey 970 Message-ID: <20200819212551.GA114762@ravnborg.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=aP3eV41m c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=S6zTFyMACwkrwXSdXUNehg==:117 a=S6zTFyMACwkrwXSdXUNehg==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=Uuh3AIEFWjzBJiia1CsA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Neil Armstrong , Xinliang Liu , Wanchun Zheng , linuxarm@huawei.com, dri-devel , Andrzej Hajda , Laurent Pinchart , driverdevel , Daniel Borkmann , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , John Fastabend , Xiubin Zhang , Wei Xu , David Airlie , Xinwei Kong , Tomi Valkeinen , Bogdan Togorean , Laurentiu Palcu , linux-media , "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" , Liwei Cai , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , Manivannan Sadhasivam , Chen Feng , Alexei Starovoitov , "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" , Rob Herring , Jakub Kicinski , mauro.chehab@huawei.com, Rob Clark , linux-arm-kernel , Greg Kroah-Hartman , lkml , Liuyao An , Network Development , Rongrong Zou , BPF Mailing List , "David S. Miller" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" Hi John. > > So, IMO, the best is to keep it on staging for a while, until those > > remaining bugs gets solved. > > I'm not sure I see all of these as compelling for pushing it in via > staging. And I suspect in the process of submitting the patches for > review folks may find the cause of some of the problems you list here. There is a tendency to forget drivers in staging, and with the almost constant refactoring that happens in the drm drivers we would end up fixing this driver when a bot trigger an error. So IMO we need very good reasons to go in via staging. Sam _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel