From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756112AbcIVMvS (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:51:18 -0400 Received: from pandora.armlinux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:60966 "EHLO pandora.armlinux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751580AbcIVMvQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:51:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:40:46 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Sean Paul Cc: Daniel Vetter , Brian Starkey , Liviu.Dudau@arm.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , dri-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: don't register the connector Message-ID: <20160922124046.GW1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <20160808160402.GA24667@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20160809060724.GD6232@phenom.ffwll.local> <20160809224812.GJ1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160921085738.GA27277@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20160921162803.GS1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160922103917.GA5632@e106950-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20160922105155.GT1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20160922120957.GU1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 05:32:35AM -0700, Sean Paul wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:22:40AM -0700, Sean Paul wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > >> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:39:18AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote: > >> >> Actually, could you please hold off picking this up? We need to make > >> >> changes in mali-dp and hdlcd or this will mess up their registration. > >> >> I will send those patches later today, but better if this all goes in > >> >> together (whenever that ends up being). > >> > > >> > Sorry, but I'm annoyed with this - the impression being given was that > >> > I was holding up this patch by not testing it on Armada, and I brought > >> > up the issue about registration at the beginning of this. > >> > > >> > Now we're _just_ finding out that there are drivers where removing the > >> > connector registration in tda998x causes them to break? It's a bit > >> > late to be checking your own drivers when you've been chasing me... > >> > > >> > Sorry, but it sounds like we're not ready to make this change - and as > >> > it's the very last day that changes will appear in linux-next prior to > >> > the merge window (assuming Linus releases 4.8 on Sunday), I'd suggest > >> > holding off until after the merge window is over, so we can get some > >> > testing with these other two drivers with this change in place. > >> > > >> > >> sigh. I just pushed my queue to drm-misc, which included this patch. > >> Sounds like I should revert? > > > > Why did you do push it _without_ an ack from the maintainer of the > > driver when the comments on the list were clearly indicating that it > > was waiting for testing and such an ack? > > > > Daniel Acked it on the list on 7/25, and you acked it yesterday asking > it to be merged to -misc. What am I missing? Sorry, I thought you were some random person maintaining some random tree who'd submitted a pull request to be merged into drm-misc. If you are in fact the drm-misc maintainer, please add yourself to the MAINTAINERS file so that everyone knows who you are. Thanks. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.