[Intel-gfx] [Freedreno] [PATCH 01/10] include: Move ascii85 functions from i915 to linux/ascii85.h

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Jordan Crouse (2018-04-05 23:06:53)
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:00:47PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > The i915 DRM driver very cleverly used ascii85 encoding for their
> > GPU state file. Move the encode functions to a general header file to
> > support other drivers that might be interested in the same
> > functionality.
> 
> In a previous version of this patch, Chris asked what tree I wanted this applied
> to, and the answer is: I'm not sure?  I'm hoping that Rob will be cool with
> picking the rest up for msm-next for 4.18 but I'm okay with putting this
> particular patch wherever it is easiest for the maintainers.

We are a bit late to sneak it into the 4.17 drm base via i915. I don't
anticipate any problems (for i915) with this patch going in through
msm-next, so happy to have it land there and percolate back to i915 3
months later.
-Chris