Re: [PATCH 5.11 073/120] drm/ttm: Warn on pinning without holding a reference

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Mar 25 2021 - 04:50:47 EST


On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:14:59AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> sorry just realized this after users started to complain. This patch
> shouldn't been backported to 5.11 in the first place.
>
> The warning itself is a good idea, but we also have patch for drivers and
> TTM in the pipeline for 5.12 so that the warning isn't triggered any more.
>
> Without backporting all of that we now get a rain of warnings in 5.11.9.
>
> My suggestion is to revert this patch from the 5.11 branch.

Thanks, will go do so right now and push out a new 5.11 release with
that in it to keep the noise down for you.

greg k-h