[RFC PATCH 1/1] drm/exynos: Move platform drivers registration to module init

[Inki Dae]

2014-11-21 0:26 GMT+09:00 Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier.martinez at collabora.co.uk>:
> Hello Inki,
>
> On 11/20/2014 04:06 PM, Inki Dae wrote:
>>> BTW, it would be great if exynos-drm-next is pulled in linux-next. That is
>>> what most people use to test integration issues so you can catch earlier any
>>> regression that may arise.
>>>
>>> You have to email Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> and point to your
>>> tree and branch and he will be able to add it to linux-next.
>>
>> Thanks for information. Actually, I received a similar email privately
>> before. However, exynos-drm-next should go to drm-next first and than to
>> mainline by Dave who is DRM subsystem maintainer. I think all vendor
>> specific drm drivers would need to be checked by drm subsystem
>> maintainer because these changes might be affect drm subsystem or other
>> vendor specific drm drivers before go to mainline.
>>
>
> This is orthogonal to the normal upstreaming path. linux-next is an integration
> tree that is created daily. So all the remote branches are merged and a git tag
> published. The branch does not get rebased and history is not preserved between
> two published linux-next tags.
>
> This is just to test the integration of different subsystems to be sure that a
> commit in one tree does not cause a regression in another one so issues can be
> spot earlier. For example in the case of $subject, a change in the OF caused a
> regression in the Exynos DRM driver.
>
>> If needed, I will make a new branch, which is based on top of linux-next
>> so other people can check their systems.
>>
>
> You don't really need another branch, git will take care of merge everything
> in linux-next :)

Ah, sorry. There was my misunderstanding. drm-next already is merged
to linux-next so I think we can do the integration test if
exynos-drm-next is merged to drm-next earlier. Anyway, I will try to
consider your opinion.

Thanks,
Inki Dae

>
>> Thanks,
>> Inki Dae
>>
>
> Best regards,
> Javier
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