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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 09:19:53 EST


On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:58:02PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> 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 ]
> >
> > 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.

Sasha has a presentation all about how this gets picked up, but I can't
find the link right now. Sasha?