[PULL] drm-xe-next-fixes v2

[Rodrigo Vivi]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Jordan Justen wrote:
> On 2024-07-11 08:18:18, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > Hi Dave and Sima,
> > 
> > This is a v2 of https://lore.kernel.org/intel-xe/Zo2sO4t32dxqy6Q7@intel.com/
> > 
> > v2 - Removed Thomas' write-back caching mode patch since Lucas will propagete
> > that through drm-xe-fixes towards 6.10. So we remove the amount of patch
> > duplication.
> > 
> > Again, it is important to highlight the uapi rename present in this
> > pull-request.
> > Mesa is aligned and waiting to merge their side:
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/30027
> > 
> > Since this uapi was recently merged, after we get both sides propagate
> > there won't be any kernel or mesa releases with the old bad naming.
> > So we should be good.
> 
> This looks to be a simple rename, and it appears that the binary
> interface is functionally the same. So, even if there was a Mesa
> release using the old header, it should function fine with the
> interface to the kernel regardless of which header the kernel used.
> 
> If the binary interface had changed, I'm not sure an argument of "no
> kernel or Mesa releases have happened" would be a good way to justify
> such a change. Luckily that is not the case here anyway.

Agreed. If it was that drastic we should never do and this argument
shouldn't apply.

But it is not so transparent as a full rename because there's one
sysfs file name that also changed with the rest of the renaming. :/

> 
> -Jordan