[PATCH 00/28] OpenChrome DRM for Linux 5.20

Javier Martinez Canillas javierm at redhat.com
Thu Jun 30 08:27:30 UTC 2022


Hello Thomas,

On 6/30/22 10:19, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:

[snip]

>>
>> And the directory could only be sourced from Kconfig when CONFIG_DRM_LEGACY
>> is enabled and make it default to n. If in a few of releases nobody complains
>> then the whole directory could be removed.
>>
> 
> That seems a lot of work for simply removing something. And I'm sure 
> that people will only complain after legacy/via got removed.
> 
> If we want to separate code for the old and new VIA driver, let's put 
> the new code into  unichrome/ and be done with it.
>

I believe that there's value in having all the legacy drivers in a single
directory rather than having them scattered all across the subsystem. But
don't have a strong opinion either. I just wanted to share my thoughts.
 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
> 

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat



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