Re: [git pull] drm fixes for 5.17-rc8/final

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On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 17:51, Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 11.03.22 06:15, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > As expected at this stage its pretty quiet, one sun4i mixer fix and
> > one i915 display flicker fix.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave.
> >
> > drm-fixes-2022-03-11:
> > drm fixes for v5.17-rc8/final
> >
> > i915:
> > - psr fix screen flicker
> >
> > sun4i:
> > - mixer format fix.
> > The following changes since commit ffb217a13a2eaf6d5bd974fc83036a53ca69f1e2:
> > [...]
>
> Out of curiosity: I might be missing something, but why wasn't the
> (afaics simple) fix for a build problem caused by 9d6366e743f3 ("drm:
> fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency") (merged for v5.16-rc1) not
> among these fixes? I mean this one:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220203093922.20754-1-tzimmermann@xxxxxxx/
>
> It's sitting in next for a few days already:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=master&id=eea89dff4c39a106f98d1cb5e4d626f8c63908b9
>
> I already asked a few days ago why this fix was not on track for merging
> in this cycle, but I didn't get an answer:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/782a683e-c625-8e68-899b-ce56939afece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Fun fact: It seems the problem and at a rough fix were already kinda
> known mid November when 9d6366e743f3 was still in next:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211117062704.14671-1-rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Then the issue was reported again two times in February:
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/CA+G9fYvN0NyaVkRQmA1O6rX7H8PPaZrUAD7=RDy33QY9rUU-9g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YhofdlzadzRmy7tj@debian/
>
> And the fix is relative simple, that's why I wonder why merging is
> delayed. What am I missing?

My radar just missed it, though someone else should have realised it
was necessary on fixes earlier, it also had incorrect Fixes: tagging,
so I fixed that and sent it to Linus,

Thanks,
Dave.



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