linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Make PDF builds work again

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:22:35 -0700
From:   Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Make PDF builds work again

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:25:38 +0200
> Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
>
>> Only now stumbled over the full thread, but the drm patch is already
>> queued up for at least 4.13 (Dave was out and all that). I guess we could
>> try to cherry-pick through stable.
>
> I kind of gave up on the 4.12 goal, at least for now.  The number of
> complaints has not been huge - I suspect you're far from the only one who
> is not too worried about building PDFs...:)

If fixing pdf (and ps) builds isn't worth the bother -- which I
wouldn't debate -- then it's best to just drop those build targets.
The only worrisome thing I see here is having build targets carried
from release to release that don't work.

-- 
Jim