Re: [PATCH] drm/xe/compat: Remove unused i915_reg.h from compat header

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

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026, Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 04:40:23PM +0000, Shankar, Uma wrote:
>> Pushed to drm-xe-next. Thanks for the review.
>
> Even though this is an Xe patch it might have been better to send this
> one through drm-intel-next rather than drm-xe-next since drm-xe-next
> doesn't have the prerequisite display patches yet to make this header
> removal possible.  So at the moment the build of drm-xe-next is broken.
> Not a huge issue since drm-tip is fine, and drm-xe-next will likely be
> fixed soon whenever a backmerge happens, but I figured I should point it
> out.

On the contrary, I think it is an issue that warrants a revert.

It's a hard requirement that committers *always* build the branch they
apply patches to before pushing, no exceptions. CI doesn't guarantee
that at all.

With the build already broken, you can't do that, and more breakage can
slip in until it's fixed.

It'll take a drm-intel-next pull request to drm-next, and then a
drm-next backmerge to drm-xe-next to fix this, and we don't generally
want to rush that to hotfix build issues like this. The build failure
*before* pushing is an indication a backmerge might be needed, and
that's the normal order of things.


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel