Re: [PATCH v5] drm/vgem/vgem_drv convert to use faux_device

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 09:36:40AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Am 01.07.25 um 12:51 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > The vgem driver does not need to create a platform device, as there is
> > no real platform resources associated it,  it only did so because it was
> > simple to do that in order to get a device to use for resource
> > management of drm resources.  Change the driver to use the faux device
> > instead as this is NOT a real platform device.
> > 
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
> > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> > Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> > v5: - rebased against 6.16-rc4 and resent as it seems to have been lost
> 
> Not lost, but thanks for the update. This patch and the one for vkms depend
> on "drm/gem-shmem: Do not map s/g table by default". [1] It'll land soon and
> the faux_device updates soon after.
> 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/150968/

Great, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h