On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:19 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:58:02PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > On 2019/02/11, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > [ Upstream commit d5c04dff24870ef07ce6453a3f4e1ffd9cf88d27 ] > > > > > > Modify vgem_init to take platform dev as parent in drm_dev_init. > > > This will make drm device available at "/sys/devices/platform/vgem" > > > in x86 chromebook. > > > > > > v2: rebase, address checkpatch typo and line over 80 characters > > > > > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Deepak Sharma <deepak.sharma@xxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > > > Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181023163550.15211-1-emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Zero objections to picking this for stable, although I'm curious what > > flagged this commit as stable material. > > > > Especially since it's closer to a feature than a bug-fix. > > > > Can you share some light? Perhaps a link to a thread/document since I > > would imagine you've been asked before. > > Sasha has a presentation all about how this gets picked up, but I can't > find the link right now. Sasha? https://lwn.net/Articles/764647/ Afaiui the autoselected patches do get posted to dri-devel. At least I see some mails show up there. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
