[Intel-gfx] [PULL] drm-intel-next

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Tue May 6 13:17:15 PDT 2014


On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 10:04:17PM +0200, Knut Petersen wrote:
> On 06.05.2014 20:59, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:30:45PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >>On Tue, 06 May 2014, Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen at t-online.de> wrote:
> >>>On 28.04.2014 15:26, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >>>The patch below is a clear candidate for 3.15 as it fixes a regression introduced after 3.14
> >>>>Egbert Eich (1):
> >>>>        drm/i915/SDVO: For sysfs link put directory and target in correct order
> >>Daniel, want me to pick that for -fixes?
> >Yeah I geuss so. People never complained that the link isn't there, us
> >adding it for one kernel release to the wrong place doesn't really sound
> >too bothersome.
> >
> >But if this unbreaks a system somewhere then it makes sense to apply to
> >-fixes.
> >
> >Knut, how exactly does your system blow up?
> Well, it's only the warning generated at boot time that would irritate users.
> As a patch is known and tested it's probably a good idea to fix it before
> people complain to lkml and bugzilla.

Ah, I didn't realize there's a warning, I've thought only the symlink goes
the wrong way. In that case it's good to go for -fixes.

Thanks for pointing this out.
-Daniel
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