[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t 0/5] Import drm UAPI headers.

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Nov 20 10:41:06 UTC 2017


On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 01:40:22PM +0200, Petri Latvala wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 12:27:15AM +0000, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
> > Hey Eric,
> > 
> > Like it did for Mesa I think this makes developers' lives easier.
> > Not having to update libdrm and then compile against the right version just
> > for the kernel headers you need is a win (in my opinion).
> 
> Yes indeed. Would be nice to be able to build IGT on Debian stable
> again.
> 
> Series is
> 
> Acked-by: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
> 
> Some more acks (or objections, if any) for the overall idea would be
> nice to have, after that we can merge this and start cleaning up the
> LOCAL_* crud.

fwiw I like the idea of just importing the headers, avoids all the need
for _local versions. Of course we need to make sure we don't add stuff
that isn't upstream, usually uapi merging rules apply (i.e. merge kernel,
then merge userspace, how to CI tbh).

Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
-Daniel
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