From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
To: "Jernej Škrabec" <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>,
"Chen-Yu Tsai" <wens@kernel.org>,
"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
"Samuel Holland" <samuel@sholland.org>,
"Diogo Silva" <diogompaissilva@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/sun4i: Remove dependency on DRM simple helpers
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:51:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3f2320f-dfe7-4728-9cf4-c3eaab33d09e@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PMdb9FVETQuPUnyh12NM2Q@gmail.com>
Hi
Am 27.06.26 um 08:55 schrieb Jernej Škrabec:
> Dne torek, 23. junij 2026 ob 22:34:40 Srednjeevropski poletni čas je Diogo Silva napisal(a):
>> Simple KMS helper are deprecated since they only add an intermediate
>> layer between drivers and the atomic modesetting.
>> This patch removes the dependency on drm simple helpers from sun4i
>> DRM drivers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Diogo Silva <diogompaissilva@gmail.com>
> This doesn't look as useful change. Is this tree-wide attempt? If so, it
> should be done in one go in one patch series, coordinated with DRM
> maintainers.
Yes, the interface is supposed to go away because it is fairly useless.
It's a low-effort task for beginners. Hence many people send out such
clean-up patches for the various drivers. If the change is acceptable
to you, it would be appreciated if you could merge it into the driver.
Best regards
Thomas
>
> Best regards,
> Jernej
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-23 20:34 [PATCH] drm/sun4i: Remove dependency on DRM simple helpers Diogo Silva
2026-06-27 6:55 ` Jernej Škrabec
2026-06-27 13:07 ` Diogo
2026-06-29 6:51 ` Thomas Zimmermann [this message]
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