linux-kernel - Re: Large new drm driver

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Date:   Tue, 2 May 2017 12:57:43 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Large new drm driver

Hi Dave,

On Tue, 2 May 2017 12:36:35 +1000 Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
>
> We've had register header files like this on a number of occasions
> before, not sure why it warrants a mention now.

Linus expressed suprise once before when we had a large number of new
lines appear in another subsystem ...

> It's just the public header files for the new Vega AMD GPUs,
> as opposed to a whole new driver.
> 
> AMD release the validated headers so open source developers
> don't have to go hunting for registers.

It's all fine, just noting.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell