Hi,
On 26/04/2018 15:45:44+0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:36:15 EEST Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:58:19PM +0530, Vaishali Thakkar wrote:
> > > It's been a while since we introduced drm_dev{get/put} functions
> > > to replace reference/unreference in drm subsystem for the
> > > consistency purpose. So, with this patch, let's just replace
> > > all current use cases of drm_dev_unref() with drm_dev_put and remove
> > > the function itself.
> > >
> > > Coccinelle was used for mass-patching.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for doing this. Unfortunately drm moves pretty fast, so already a
> > conflict when I tried to apply this. Some drivers are also in their own
> > trees, so this might lead to more fun :-/
> >
> > Can you pls split it up per-driver (just the directories under
> > drivers/gpu/drm/ is enough)? Final patch to remove the function might then
> > get stalled a bit ofc.
>
> I requested a single patch instead of splitting it per driver, you might want
> to blame me for that.
>
Doesn't splitting the change per driver break bisectability unless there
is a guarantee that the change in include/drm/drm_drv.h is applied after
all the driver trees have been merged?
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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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