Re: [PATCH 02/10] drm: Use dev->name as fallback for dev->unique

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:43:52AM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 30 March 2016 at 10:45, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Lots of arm drivers get this wrong and for most arm boards this is the
> > right thing actually. And anyway with most loaders you want to chase
> > sysfs links anyway to figure out which dri device you want.
> >
> > This will fix dmesg noise for rockchip and sti.
> >
> Fwiw I still hope to finish libdrm-2 (hint importing kernel headers),
> which will remove the biggest user of these legacy ioctls. This way we
> might even nuke all these lovelies from the kernel. I doubt you'll
> object against the idea, will you ?

We can't nuke this lovelies from the kernel for another 5-10 years since
old userspace needs to keep working :(

Feel like r-b-stamping this patch?
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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