Re: linux-next: manual merge of the devicetree tree with the drm tree

[Jyri Sarha]

On 11/13/17 20:43, Frank Rowand wrote:
> Hi Jyri,
> 
> On 11/13/17 07:40, Jyri Sarha wrote:
>> On 11/13/17 07:58, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:37:56 +0000 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Today's linux-next merge of the devicetree tree got a conflict in:
>>>>
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave_compat.c
>>>>
>>>> between commit:
>>>>
>>>>   44cd3939c111b7 ("drm/tilcdc: Remove redundant OF_DETACHED flag setting")
>>>>
>>>> from the drm tree and commit:
>>>>
>>>>   f948d6d8b792bb ("of: overlay: avoid race condition between applying multiple overlays")
>>>>
>>>> from the devicetree tree.
>>>>
>>>> I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
>>>> is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
>>>> conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
>>>> is submitted for merging.  You may also want to consider cooperating
>>>> with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
>>>> complex conflicts.
>>>>
>>>> diff --cc drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave_compat.c
>>>> index 482299a6f3b0,54025af534d4..000000000000
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave_compat.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave_compat.c
>>>> @@@ -163,12 -162,8 +162,6 @@@ static struct device_node * __init tilc
>>>>   		return NULL;
>>>>   	}
>>>>   
>>>> - 	ret = of_resolve_phandles(overlay);
>>>> - 	if (ret) {
>>>> - 		pr_err("%s: Failed to resolve phandles: %d\n", __func__, ret);
>>>> - 		return NULL;
>>>> - 	}
>>>>  -	of_node_set_flag(overlay, OF_DETACHED);
>>>> --
>>>>   	return overlay;
>>>>   }
>>>>   
>>> Just a reminder that this conflict still exists.
>>>
>> After some consideration, I think we can drop the dts backward
>> compatibility code from drm/tilcdc. It seems that it is causing a lot of
>> trouble and I do not even know if anybody uses it anymore. Here is a
>> patch for dropping it:
>>
>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-November/157394.html
>>
>> I did not plan to merge it before v4.16, but if this is a bigger problem
>> I can push is right now for v4.15.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jyri
>>
> The dropping patch is much appreciated.
> 
> It would make life easier for me if the patch gets into v4.15-rc.

Dave, Daniel? Would you take this late addition to v4.15 still, if I
would send a pull request now?

The patch is pretty much orthogonal to the rest of drm as it is only
dealing with device tree stuff.

Best regards,
Jyri

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