[Nouveau] [PATCH 0/5] Fix deadlock on runtime suspend in DRM drivers

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Op 14-02-18 om 09:46 schreef Lukas Wunner:
> Dear drm-misc maintainers,
>
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:38:28AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
>> Fix a deadlock on hybrid graphics laptops that's been present since 2013:
> This series has been reviewed, consent has been expressed by the most
> interested parties, patch [1/5] which touches files outside drivers/gpu
> has been acked and I've just out a v2 addressing the only objection
> raised.  My plan is thus to wait another two days for comments and,
> barring further objections, push to drm-misc this weekend.
>
> However I'm struggling with the decision whether to push to next or
> fixes.  The series is marked for stable, however the number of
> affected machines is limited and for an issue that's been present
> for 5 years it probably doesn't matter if it soaks another two months
> in linux-next befor it gets backported.  Hence I tend to err on the
> side of caution and push to next, however a case could be made that
> fixes is more appropriate.
>
> I'm lacking experience making such decisions and would be interested
> to learn how you'd handle this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lukas

I would say fixes, it doesn't look particularly scary. :)

~Maarten