linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/udl: Make page

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:10:55 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Stéphane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@...il.com>
Cc:     Dawid Kurek <dawid.kurek@...playlink.com>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/udl: Make page_flip asynchronous

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Stéphane Marchesin
<stephane.marchesin@...il.com> wrote:
>> Can't we roll this driver over to the atomic helpers instead? There
>> you get nonblocking pretty much for free ... I'm not sure extending
>> the old modeset code has all that much benefit really.
>
> This code certainly has value by itself; it makes the driver more
> efficient. I think the best can sometimes be the enemy of the good --
> this code is here and written, but I don't think any of us is going to
> tackle atomic for udl.

Sure, I guess I should have clarified this with "If you want me to
review and merge this, then pls look into atomic, since that seems
actually beneficial for my own interest". I'm not paid by intel to
review driver patches at random, but to keep overall drm in nice
shape. Moving drivers to atomic and using more shared infrastructure
is in that interest, reviewing random driver patches isn't. Sorry for
not making clear, I kinda have that as my implicit context.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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