[PATCH] drm-misc: Next phase in small drivers in drm-misc

Sean Paul seanpaul at chromium.org
Mon Apr 3 14:23:08 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:38:15AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> I think the initial experiment worked fairly well, and the
> kickstarting of a review (well, ack/best practices really) market
> seems to work ok-ish too. I think we can try to make it (slowly) scale
> to more drivers, with driver teams interested in being part of
> drm-misc. I do think we need to be careful though, to make sure we
> don't overstretch the review/mentoring bandwidth and can improve
> process&tooling as we go.
> 
> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org>
> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo at padovan.org>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>

Acked-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>

> Cc: Archit Taneja <architt at codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
> Cc: Mark Yao <mark.yao at rock-chips.com>
> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  drm-misc.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drm-misc.rst b/drm-misc.rst
> index b6d01f2c7c2b..e4409cce8178 100644
> --- a/drm-misc.rst
> +++ b/drm-misc.rst
> @@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ Small Drivers
>  =============
>  
>  Small drivers, where a full tree is overkill, can be maintained in drm-misc. For
> -now it's just an experiment with a few drivers to figure out a working process.
> -Slightly different rules apply:
> +now there's just a few drivers maintained in drm-misc, but we can slowly add
> +more to figure out how to make this scale. Slightly different rules apply:
>  
>  * Small is measured in patches merged per kernel release. The occasional big
>    patch series is still acceptable if it's not a common thing (e.g. new hw
> -- 
> 2.11.0

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Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS


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