Re: -nightly and -fixes status

[Vandana Kannan <vandana.kannan@intel.com>]

On Jan-02-2014 4:05 AM, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> Hi Daniel, and welcome back.
> 
> Tomorrow I go on vacation, and since it's more or less the end of the
> day for anyone still submitting or reviewing patches, I figured now is
> as good a time as any to do this.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~bwidawsk/drm-intel/log/?h=drm-intel-fixes
> got one patch, which I sent as a pull to Dave on the behest of Jani
> (20140101182821.GA2032@bwidawsk.net). Chris cc'd stable on a patch
> which we both agree now (I think) should not really be CC stable.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~bwidawsk/drm-intel/log/?h=drm-intel-nightly
> has quite a few patches which I've merged to try to unblock QA as much
> as possible. The last 3 have no r-b, but have fixed bugs either locally,
> or on bugs.fdo. More on this in the 'development' section. For QA, I
> managed -nightly similar to how you do, where -nightly only has one
> merge branch, "vacation-nightly."
> 
> The bug count unsurprisingly went up quite a bit due to the PPGTT
> merged. At least one of these was caused by one of your patches. I've
> tried assigning those to you where reasonable. Some of the others have
> solutions in the description, and links on the mailing list. I think it
> should be fairly easy to knock off quite a few bugs once you go through
> them. Since you own the final patch merge decision, I didn't want to
> touch the bug state.
> 
> On the development front, the patches requiring attention first are
> mostly the fixes inspired by PPGTT from Chris and myself, mentioned
> already above. I believe all but Chris' last series are in my
> vacation-nightly. I merged all of the ones which either had review, or
> were fairly trivial. I haven't seen anything that looks like a new bug
> report as a result of these. This was mostly for the sake of QA, and
> convenience; it's up to you how you want to manage it.
> 
> There were 3 series which need review/attention:
> Vandana - Another spin of DRRS
> Ben - 4GB GGTT support for BDW
> Chris - Prevent duplicate binds with PPGTT
> 
> I took a quick look at Vandana's patches, and they all seem to have
> review already.
> 
> My series needs rework based on the two fixes from Chris for
> overindexing of the pt_pages array.
> 
> I started to review Chris' series, but seem to have checked out mentally
> already.
> 
> I'll be back on the 8th if any questions still remain by then.
> 
Hi Daniel/Ben,
I had sent updated patches related to DRRS towards the end of December.
Please let me know whether any other changes are required on these patches.
Thanks,
Vandana