[PATCH v4 9/9] drm/vkms: convert to use faux_device

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 10.02.25 um 15:37 schrieb Louis Chauvet:
> On 10/02/25 - 13:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> The vkms driver does not need to create a platform device, as there is
>> no real platform resources associated it,  it only did so because it was
>> simple to do that in order to get a device to use for resource
>> management of drm resources.  Change the driver to use the faux device
>> instead as this is NOT a real platform device.
>>
>> Cc: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet at bootlin.com>
>> Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona at ffwll.ch>
>> Cc: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
>> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>

> Tested-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet at bootlin.com>
> Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet at bootlin.com>
>
> Thanks for the modification, it seems to work.

Should this patch be merged through DRM trees? drm-misc-next is at 
v6.14-rc4 and has struct faux_device.

Best regards
Thomas



>
> Louis chauvet
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