[PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: don't register the connector

[Sean Paul]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:39:18AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote:
>> Actually, could you please hold off picking this up? We need to make
>> changes in mali-dp and hdlcd or this will mess up their registration.
>> I will send those patches later today, but better if this all goes in
>> together (whenever that ends up being).
>
> Sorry, but I'm annoyed with this - the impression being given was that
> I was holding up this patch by not testing it on Armada, and I brought
> up the issue about registration at the beginning of this.
>
> Now we're _just_ finding out that there are drivers where removing the
> connector registration in tda998x causes them to break?  It's a bit
> late to be checking your own drivers when you've been chasing me...
>
> Sorry, but it sounds like we're not ready to make this change - and as
> it's the very last day that changes will appear in linux-next prior to
> the merge window (assuming Linus releases 4.8 on Sunday), I'd suggest
> holding off until after the merge window is over, so we can get some
> testing with these other two drivers with this change in place.
>

sigh. I just pushed my queue to drm-misc, which included this patch.
Sounds like I should revert?

Sean


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