On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Am Montag, den 29.08.2016, 17:44 +0200 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Am Montag, den 29.08.2016, 12:53 +0200 schrieb Philipp Zabel:
>> >> Am Freitag, den 26.08.2016, 15:30 +0800 schrieb Liu Ying:
>> >> > This patch adds active plane reconfiguration support for imx-drm.
>> >> > This may fixes some mode setting failure issues which were introduced
>> >> > by imx-drm atomic conversion patch set. The main idea is to disable the
>> >> > plane in question in CRTC's atomic_disable operation and then the drm
>> >> > atomic core will enable it again automatically.
>> >>
>> >> I have rebased onto drm-misc and picked up the remaining patches (4-7)
>> >
>> > Actually, since this is a regression and the new drm-misc patches won't
>> > make it into 4.8, I'd be inclined to take the v2 patch as a fix for 4.8
>> > and then apply the remaining patches as relative changes to that on top
>> > of drm-misc instead.
>>
>> Just apply the 4.8 to 4.8 and then once that's in an -rc do a
>> backmerge with -X ours and explain in the commit what you're doing. No
>> need to rework the patches once more to be incremental on top of the
>> 4.8 fix.
>>
>> At least that's what we're doing all the time in i915.
>> -Daniel
>
> Could you merge v4.8-rc3 into drm-next? After backmerging
> drm-intel-fixes-2016-08-15 with -s ours, v4.8-rc3 just auto-merges
> cleanly, but I assume I shouldn't do that inside an imx-drm pull
> request.
>
> Since imx-drm-fixes-2016-08-29 is based on v4.8-rc3, I'd otherwise have
> to pull it in with that backmerge, to resolve the conflict between
> commit c6c1f9bc798b ("drm/imx: Add active plane reconfiguration
> support") that went into v4.8-rc5 and the newer version in imx-drm/next.
Yup, don't do backmerges in your driver tree which affect other
drivers. Those need to happen in Dave's main drm-next tree to avoid
confusion and chaos. I'll ping him about it.
-Daniel
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