Re: [PATCH 02/10] drm: Use dev->name as fallback for dev->unique

Emil Velikov
2016-03-30T10:43:52Z

On 30 March 2016 at 10:45, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Lots of arm drivers get this wrong and for most arm boards this is the
> right thing actually. And anyway with most loaders you want to chase
> sysfs links anyway to figure out which dri device you want.
>
> This will fix dmesg noise for rockchip and sti.
>
Fwiw I still hope to finish libdrm-2 (hint importing kernel headers),
which will remove the biggest user of these legacy ioctls. This way we
might even nuke all these lovelies from the kernel. I doubt you'll
object against the idea, will you ?

-Emil
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