[PATCH v5] drm/vgem/vgem_drv convert to use faux_device

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 03:52:32PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Am 02.07.25 um 09:49 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 09:36:40AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Am 01.07.25 um 12:51 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > > > The vgem 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: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> > > > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
> > > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: Simona Vetter <simona at ffwll.ch>
> > > > Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > v5: - rebased against 6.16-rc4 and resent as it seems to have been lost
> > > Not lost, but thanks for the update. This patch and the one for vkms depend
> > > on "drm/gem-shmem: Do not map s/g table by default". [1] It'll land soon and
> > > the faux_device updates soon after.
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > Thomas
> > > 
> > > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/150968/
> > Great, thanks for letting me know.
> 
> This patch and the one for vkms have been merged into DRM trees. They should
> show up in upstream in one of the next merge windows.

Wonderful, thank you!