From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Broadwell 3.14 backports Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:29:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20140322112921.GE26519@phenom.ffwll.local> References: <1395427701-13434-1-git-send-email-benjamin.widawsky@linux.intel.com> <20140321221448.GA16674@linux.intel.com> <20140321234705.GA9504@kroah.com> <20140322000606.GA2473@linux.intel.com> <20140322001732.GC2473@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com (mail-ee0-f46.google.com [74.125.83.46]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB896E4FA for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ee0-f46.google.com with SMTP id t10so2668584eei.19 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140322001732.GC2473@linux.intel.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "Intel-gfx" To: Ben Widawsky Cc: Greg KH , Intel GFX , stable List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:17:34PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:06:06PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:47:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > I have no idea what is going on here, what this original email was from > > > / about, or what I am supposed to do here... > > > > > > The stable patch process is pretty well defined, and documented, is that > > > lacking somehow, and if so, in what? > > > > > > greg k-h > > > > My apologies, I didn't understand what Daniel had originally wanted from > > me, and I think the plan changed a bit in flight. I'm sorry you got > > dragged into it. The stable process documentation is perfectly adequate. > > > > And if it wasn't clear, like Daniel said, please ignore these 12 patches > for now. Sorry again. For clarification: BDW support was enabled for the first time in 3.14, but in the -rc phase suddenly lots of workaround patches and little fixes start to pile in. Since pretty much no one has the hardware already I decided to withold all bdw fixes and queued them for -next. Once it all stabilized we could then reevaluate whether bdw support in 3.14 makes sense or not, i.e. whether to backport a pile of fixes or just disable it again. bdw seems to have calmed down now and it doesn't look too bad (it's a bit more than these 12 patches here, but all fairly isolated), so I've asked Ben to assemble the required patches, backport and test them and then submit it all to stable (once drm-next has landed, ofc). Ben was a bit overeager and submitted them to stable a bit too early ;-) My apologies for the fuzz and my unclear communication. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch