Re: [PATCH 1/4] drm: qxl: Drop misleading comment

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>> branches. One part that imo really should stick around is the drm-tip
>> integration tree rebuilding. That allows us to distribute conflict
>> handling (e.g. between drm-misc-fixes and drm-misc-next), and with more
>> people and more drivers in drm-misc I expect more conflicts.
>
> Ok, good point.  I see there is a separate "dim rebuild-top" command, so
> that should be doable no matter how I actually apply the patches.
>
> Trying to run dim throws errors at me though:
>
> kraxel@nilsson ~/tmp/maintainer-tools (maintainer-tools)# ./dim help
> ./dim: line 1602: declare: -n: invalid option
> declare: usage: declare [-aAfFgilrtux] [-p] [name[=value] ...]
> kraxel@nilsson ~/tmp/maintainer-tools (maintainer-tools)# bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.2.46(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

declare -n introduced in bash 4.3 is needed for alias
support. Workaround at [1].

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2017-January/118474.html

>> But dim apply-branch is a supposed to be a drop-in replacement for git
>> apply-mbox, so should be simple to integrate into another set of scripts
>> to manage the mails. And if there's changes to dim needed to make that
>> happen, we can do that (we push patches to it at a regular pace).
>
> The patches tool prepares a mbox file, then runs "git am".  Shouldn't be
> that hard to make it configurable ...

N.b. dim currently doesn't do all its magic, such as adding Link: tag,
if you apply more than one patch at a time. If you apply a multi-patch
mbox, only the last one will get the Link: tag.

BR,
Jani.

>> > Ok.  How quickly could I start using drm-misc?  I have some pending
>> > patches for the 4.11 merge window.  Any chance I can push them through
>> > drm-misc-next?  Or should I better send a pull req to Dave?
>> 
>> If you want you can get started right away. I plan to type some small docs
>> for this experiment, but the only thing you need is an fdo account with
>> drm-misc commit rights. Simplest to ping me (and fdo admins) on
>> #dri-devel.
>
> Ok.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>
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