Re: [PATCH 1/2] console: Remove dummy con_font_op() callback implementations

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:24 PM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:49:46PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Peilin, can you pls resend this together with all the other pending
> > patches from you? I think that's better than me trying to cherry-pick the
> > bits we decided to keep from random places.
>
> Oh, are we doing an -rc3 backmerge soon? At the moment I can base these
> patches on neither drm-misc (due to the font_copy removal), nor mainline
> (due to the signedness issue in font_desc we've talked about), so I'm
> waiting for a backmerge to rebase everything properly. Sorry that I
> didn't mention earlier.

linux-next has all the trees, so you can always use that. And yes I'm
pushing the backmerge through, so in a few days at most I can pull in
all your patches. Meanwhile you can base your work of linux-next.

> > Greg, ok if I just pull these in through drm-misc-next? It's a pretty bad
> > hairball anyway and that avoids the tree coordination issues. Only thing
> > that might get in the way is the vt font_copy removal, but that's in -rc3
> > so easy to backmerge.
>
> I will rebase and send everything (including the font_copy
> garbage-collecting) in a v3 series after the backmerge. Thanks,

No need to be blocked on a backmerge, this is only needed for merging
the patches. Development should not be blocked like this.
-Daniel

>
> Peilin Ye
>


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