Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: compute wait_ioctl timeout correctly

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:16 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:42 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Sigh. So you're going to make me write a separate patch that moves it over?
>>
>> We've written it already, Imre posted the link to the old discussion:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/10/187
>>
>> But if the first attempt doesn't sufficiently stick I tend to chase
>> the patches any more. But if you want to resurrect this I could ping
>> Imre and ask him to pick it up again or you could rebase his patches.
>
> Well, last I saw the initial patch was buggy, no? I don't think I saw
> it being resubmitted.

I didn't see your reply in that thread nor in the v2 follow up at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136854294730957&w=2 Maybe I missed
it, but response seems to have been lukewarm overall.

>>> But still, I do see our change broke you here, so I'm not going to object.
>>
>> Ok, thanks I'll pull this in through drm-intel for 3.19 (3.18 is kinda
>> done already I guess) with cc: stable.
>
> You probably should submit it for 3.18 and let Linus decide if its too
> late. I've already gotten yelled at by Ingo for pushing patches in the
> merge window that cc stable. Even if its out of a desire to let the
> patches get wider testing, its something of a hot-button item for
> folks. :)

Oh I know, but if you count your regression rate in bugs-per-day you
end up with different standards ;-)
-Daniel
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