[PATCH 1/2] Revert "drm: Add and handle new aspect ratios in DRM layer"

[Emil Velikov]

On 7 November 2016 at 07:43, Sharma, Shashank <shashank.sharma at intel.com> wrote:
> If I was not very clear for the first time, every time we send a patch to
> drm-intel/dri-devel, we do basic testing on Gnome-desktop too (Not only
> Android).
>
> So even these aspect ratio patches were tested with full gnome-desktop, and
> it worked well.
>
>
I guess the part that's not so obvious is that Linux
desktop/distributions provide a very wide permutation of components
and configs used. While on a local (test) setup only a small/limited
set is available. Esp. on Android where things are _very_ tightly
coupled.

Obviously nobody likes when we have to carry kernel patches which
workaround "broken" userspace, but it's a kernel policy and we all
have to live with it. That's the main reason people are so
careful/pedantic when it comes to UABI. And as you can see even then
there are bits that we miss :'-(

Regards,
Emil