Re: [PATCH 00/11] SimpleDRM & Sysfb

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 03/03/14 13:09, David Herrmann wrote:

>> What do you think, would it be possible to keep the sysfb stuff in
>> arch/x86, and still be able to do the rest of the stuff here? And then
>> move the sysfs from arch/x86 to drivers/video later?
> 
> I don't think there's any need for that. Linus does conflict
> resolution all day long, so a short hint in Dave's pull-request (plus
> an example merge) should be enough. Same is true for -next, I think.

True, but, well, the conflict with this one is not a few lines. "git
diff |wc -l" gives 2494 lines for the conflict. It's not really complex
to resolve that one, though, as it's really about copying all the stuff
into its new place.

So I'm not sure if that makes Linus think "this is simple one, 30 secs
and done" or "who the f*** sends me this crap" ;). Especially for two
reasons:

- The fb-reogranization is not very critical, and often clean-ups are
not worth it (although I think this one is good one, of course).
- Conflicting fbdev changes coming from another tree

> And this is really just a mechanical thing, nothing hard to do. But of
> course, it's your decision. However, keeping the code in x86 is the
> wrong thing to do. As discussed with Ingo, the patch that extends

Yes, I didn't mean keeping the code in x86 for good, but just for one
kernel version to make merging easier.

> x86/sysfb is only provided for easier backporting. The followup patch
> immediately removes it again and adds proper video/sysfb. I'd dislike
> splitting these just to avoid merge conflicts. I can also maintain a
> merge-fixup branch in my tree, if anyone wants that.

You can have a try at merging. If you think it's trivial, maybe it is
and we can just let Linus handle it:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomba/linux.git
work/fb-reorder

 Tomi

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