Re: [PATCH 4.20 004/352] drm/vgem: Fix vgem_init to get drm device available.

From: Emil Velikov
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 09:02:27 EST


Hi Greg,

On 2019/02/11, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> [ Upstream commit d5c04dff24870ef07ce6453a3f4e1ffd9cf88d27 ]
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> Modify vgem_init to take platform dev as parent in drm_dev_init.
> This will make drm device available at "/sys/devices/platform/vgem"
> in x86 chromebook.
>
> v2: rebase, address checkpatch typo and line over 80 characters
>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Deepak Sharma <deepak.sharma@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181023163550.15211-1-emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Zero objections to picking this for stable, although I'm curious what
flagged this commit as stable material.

Especially since it's closer to a feature than a bug-fix.

Can you share some light? Perhaps a link to a thread/document since I
would imagine you've been asked before.

Thanks
Emil