patches dropped from drm-misc-next [Was: Re: [PATCH 00/53] drm: Convert to platform remove callback returning] void

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 12:13 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> [expanding recipents by the other affected persons]
>
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:08:15AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 8:40 AM Uwe Kleine-König
> > <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:25:23PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/gpu/drm
> > > > to use the .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove()
> > > > callback .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because
> > > > the driver core doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The
> > > > only effect of a non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver
> > > > core emits a warning. The device is removed anyhow and an early return
> > > > from .remove() usually yields a resource leak.
> > > >
> > > > By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot
> > > > reasonably (but wrongly) assume any more that there happens some kind of
> > > > cleanup later.
> > >
> > > I wonder if someone would volunteer to add the whole series to
> > > drm-misc-next?!
> >
> > It looks as if Neil applied quite a few of them already, so I looked
> > at what was left...
> >
> > I'm a little hesitant to just apply the whole kit-and-caboodle to
> > drm-misc-next since there are specific DRM trees for a bunch of them
> > and it would be better if they landed there. ...so I went through all
> > the patches that still applied to drm-misc-next, then used
> > 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl --scm' to check if they were maintained
> > through drm-misc. That still left quite a few patches. I've applied
> > those ones and pushed to drm-misc-next:
> >
> > 71722685cd17 drm/xlnx/zynqmp_dpsub: Convert to platform remove
> > callback returning void
> > 1ed54a19f3b3 drm/vc4: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > b957812839f8 drm/v3d: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > e2fd3192e267 drm/tve200: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 84e6da7ad553 drm/tiny: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 34cdd1f691ad drm/tidss: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > d665e3c9d37a drm/sun4i: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 0c259ab19146 drm/stm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 9a865e45884a drm/sti: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 3c855610840e drm/rockchip: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > e41977a83b71 drm/panfrost: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > cef3776d0b5a drm/panel: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > bd296a594e87 drm/mxsfb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 38ca2d93d323 drm/meson: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > fd1457d84bae drm/mcde: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 41a56a18615c drm/logicvc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 980ec6444372 drm/lima: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 82a2c0cc1a22 drm/hisilicon: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > c3b28b29ac0a drm/fsl-dcu: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > a118fc6e71f9 drm/atmel-hlcdc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 9a32dd324c46 drm/aspeed: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 2c7d291c498c drm/arm/malidp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > a920028df679 drm/arm/hdlcd: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
> > 1bf3d76a7d15 drm/komeda: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
>
> Together with the patches that were applied later the topmost commit
> from this series is c2807ecb5290 ("drm/omap: Convert to platform remove
> callback returning void"). This commit was part for the following next
> tags:
>
>         $ git tag -l --contains c2807ecb5290
>         next-20230609
>         next-20230613
>         next-20230614
>         next-20230615
>
> However in next-20230616 they are missing. In next-20230616
> drm-misc/for-linux-next was cf683e8870bd4be0fd6b98639286700a35088660.
> Compared to c2807ecb5290 this adds 1149 patches but drops 37 (that are
> also not included with a different commit id). The 37 patches dropped
> are 13cdd12a9f934158f4ec817cf048fcb4384aa9dc..c2807ecb5290:
>
>         $ git shortlog -s 13cdd12a9f934158f4ec817cf048fcb4384aa9dc..c2807ecb5290
>              1  Christophe JAILLET
>              2  Jessica Zhang
>              5  Karol Wachowski
>              1  Laura Nao
>             27  Uwe Kleine-König
>              1  Wang Jianzheng
>
>
> I guess this was done by mistake because nobody told me about dropping
> my/these patches? Can c2807ecb5290 please be merged into drm-misc-next
> again?

AFAIK drm-misc/for-linux-next cuts off at -rc6, at which point any patches
merged get queued up for -next-next. I think that's what happened to your
patches?


ChenYu