[PATCH] drm: tda998x: mali-dp: hdlcd: refactor connector registration

[Brian Starkey]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:19:19PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:52:33AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote:
>
>Ah, makes sense. Should I apply this to drm-misc so it's in a shared tree?

Honestly, I don't know. I didn't entirely follow what it was Russell
wanted in terms of getting this merged:

>On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 02:40:22PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>So, what I would like to see is a single patch against Linus' 4.8.0
>>commit fixing mali-dp, hdlcd and any other driver, together with
>>removing drm_connector_register() from TDA998x.  This is so the patch
>>can be shared between all interested parties without forcing everyone
>>to 4.9-rc1.  Looking at the diff between 4.8 and 4.9-rc1 for
>>drivers/gpu/drm/arm, that shouldn't result in any merge conflicts -
>>and if you want to follow on from that with 4.9-rc1 development, you
>>can always merge 4.9-rc1 on top of that commit.

Looks like Jyri's series which depends on this is also dependent on
Russell's tree, so might be best to wait for him to get back online.

-Brian

>-Daniel
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