[PULL] SH Mobile DRM driver for v3.7

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Sun Sep 16 08:38:41 PDT 2012


On Saturday 15 September 2012 15:06:13 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 09/15/2012 01:28 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> Hi Dave,
> >> 
> >> The SH Mobile DRM driver is now (in my opinion) ready for mainline. It
> >> requires GEM and KMS/FB helpers that have been reviewed on the list and
> >> tested. Sascha is waiting for them to reach your tree to send a pull
> >> request for another new driver.
> > 
> > Just a quick review before I pull,
> > 
> > Why does include/drm/shmob_drm.h exist? this file is meant to define
> > the userspace API to the driver, if you don't have any userspace API
> > or driver specific ioctls, this file shouldn't be required. You might
> > want to create include/drm/shmob_internal.h maybe, if this is used as
> > an interface to other places in the kernel. I probably need to check
> > other have been doing the right thing here as well. (driver_drm.h
> > should be user facing only)
> > 
> > Uggh drm_fb_cma_helper.c is pure midlayer mistake, are you 100% sure
> > no driver is ever going to want to tweak the drm_fbdev_cma_ops?
> 
> Obviously we can't, for the same reasons we can't know whether there will
> ever be a driver which needs to use custom fb_ops. It works fine as it is
> now for three different drivers. And other drivers making use of the cma
> buffer helpers are likely to have similar requirements, but if we ever get
> to a point where a driver needs custom fb_ops it is fairly easy to change
> it then.

Dave, are you fine with that ? If so I'll submit a new pull request with 
include/drm/shmob_drm.h moved to include/linux/platform_data/shmob_drm.h.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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