[Intel-gfx] [alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] support DP MST audio

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:00:27AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:39:13 +0100,
> Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:45:31 +0100,
> > >> >-----Original Message-----
> > >> >From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai at suse.de]
> > >> >Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 4:19 PM
> > >> >To: Yang, Libin <libin.yang at intel.com>
> > >> >Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>; intel-gfx <intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org>;
> > >> >Nikula, Jani <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org; Lin,
> > >> >Mengdong <mengdong.lin at intel.com>
> > >> >Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] support DP MST audio
> > >> >
> > >> >On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 07:22:55 +0100,
> > >> >Yang, Libin wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Hi Takashi,
> > >> >>
> > >> >> It seems the patches for DP MST in gfx is not merged into Linus branch.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Do we have plan to merge gfx branch manually and review the patches for
> > >> >audio? Or we will wait the DP MST patches for i915 merged into Linus branch?
> > >> >
> > >> >Sorry, this was delayed due to the vacation.
> > >> >Now I applied these three patches to topic/hda-dp-mst branch based on 4.10-
> > >> >rc2, and it was merged to for-next branch.
> > >> >
> > >> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git topic/hda-dp-
> > >> >mst
> > >>
> > >> Thanks. These audio patches are based on the i915 dp mst patches. Without
> > >> I915 driver patches support, it will make errors.
> > >
> > > Ah yeah, I forgot it.  So I removed it from for-next branch, but
> > > topic/hda-dp-mst branch is kept so that it can be merged to i915
> > > tree.
> > >
> > > Let me know if there is any i915 branch I can pull into sound tree.
> > 
> > Aw, I didn't know that the depency goes this way round, the dp mst
> > patches (I'm not even sure which ones they are) on the i915 are just
> > on the general pile. So not anywhere near a place where I can make a
> > topic branch.
> > 
> > I guess what needs to be done now is a cherry-picked list of just the
> > patches we need, on top of -rc3, that I can then pull into
> > drm-intel.git plus send a pull request for that to Takashi. That means
> > the patches are twice in drm-intel.git, but if we cherry-pick
> > reference them correctly then that should be all ok and can't really
> > be helped.
> > 
> > Or we just delay the audio side for 4.12, dp mst audio support is 4
> > years late anyway, so one more release won'thurt that much ;-)
> 
> Well, thinking of the amount of patches, I guess we can do other way
> round: basically it's fine to apply Libin's latest patches to drm tree
> for 4.11, if it makes things easier.  I don't think we'll have a big
> conflict with these changes for others during 4.11 development.  If
> any, I can pull some of stable point from drm tree.
> 
> Does it work for you?  If yes, feel free to apply these three sound
> patches to drm or i915 tree with my ack.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>

Works for me too. Libin, can you pls resend (somehow this thread
disconnected from the patches for me), with Takashi's r-b + ack for
merging through drm-intel?

Thanks, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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