[PATCH 08/23] drm/via: use drm_mm instead of drm_sman
James Simmons
jsimmons at infradead.org
Wed Dec 7 08:28:45 PST 2011
> Chris Wilson rightly complained that this doesn't explain the list_del
> magic going on. New commit msg reads:
>
> To make the transition in a piece-wise and bisectable way possible,
> I've hijacked the ->owner_list from drm_sman. While transitioning, the
> list_add was done by the driver, while the list_del was still done by
> the dying sman code.
>
> Now that we are in full control of ->owner_list, do the list_del
> ourselves.
>
> He also noted the superflous additions of INIT_LIST_HEAD and the stale
> comment about spinlock locking in the idr allocation (protected by
> dev->struct_mutex) that I've copied over. All fixed up and pushed out for
> the moment to my fdo repo:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/log/?h=kill-with-fire
Speaking of I attempted to clone that repo but it gives me
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
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