Re: [PATCH] drm/amd/powerplay: mark symbols static where possible

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:41:16PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday, October 24, 2016 8:07:16 PM CEST Deucher, Alexander wrote:
> > > > > In fact, these functions are only used in the file in which they are
> > > > > declared and don't need a declaration, but can be made static.
> > > > > So this patch marks these functions with 'static'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > This was already applied the last time you sent it out.  Sorry if I
> > > > didn't mention that previously.
> > > 
> > > For some reason the patch hasn't made it into linux-next, so I can see
> > > why Baoyou was getting confused here. Can you clarify what the timeline
> > > is for the AMD DRM driver patches from between they get applied to the
> > > AMD tree to when they make it into linux-next?
> > > 
> > 
> > It came in late enough last cycle that it didn't make it into 4.9 (this is just a clean up not a critical bug fix), so I queued it for 4.10.  I try to reply when I apply a patch, but sometimes I miss one here and there.  Once Dave starts the drm-next tree for 4.10, it will be included in my pull request.  Pending -next patches are in my drm-next-<kernel version>-wip tree until I send Dave a formal request.
> > 
> > > I've occasionally had a hard time with DRM (and a few other subsystems)
> > > with bugfix patches trying to find out whether they got lost or
> > > whether they just haven't made it into -next but are in some other tree.
> > > 
> > 
> > For bug fixes we usually send Dave ~weekly pull requests for each -rc as necessary.  For -next stuff, each driver usually sends at least one, sometimes several pull requests for the next merge window.
> 
> Ok, got it. Thanks for the detailed reply!
> 
> Do you think it would be appropriate to include your drm-next-wip tree in
> linux-next? I think this is how a lot of the multi-level maintainer
> setups work as it give faster feedback about when things break.

tbh I think all drm drivers should be in linux-next. The early head-ups
about conflicts are really useful. Same for nouveau, but given that
nouveau is developed in a userspace git repo that's harder to pull off.
-Daniel
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