[Bug 795228] kmssink: Update driver name for Xilinx DRM-KMS Driver

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Mon Apr 16 12:25:50 UTC 2018


https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795228

--- Comment #3 from Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Devarsh Thakkar from comment #2)
> Hi Victor,
> 
> Thanks for the quick review, I didn't keep older driver because of below
> reasons :
> 
> 1) As I understand only the new DRM driver i.e "xlnx" is being upstreamed
> (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10162095/) to community and it was also
> confirmed by xilinx DRM driver owners that older DRM driver entry is not
> needed in kmssink.
> 
> 2) The older DRM driver "xilinx_drm" is also disabled in xilinx kernel
> https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx/ ) now. Most of the users for xilinx
> board use yocto build which internally use a specific commit for gstreamer
> and kernel. So I guess if someone is still using older DRM from previous
> yocto build of xilinx they might be also using an older gstreamer release.
> 
> Kindly let me know your opinion.
> 
> Thanks,
> Devarsh

I would keep both, adding a comment of the deprecation of the previous symbol.

Please rebase your patch with current master.

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