linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/27] fb/drm: omapdss: Clean up the headers and separate the two stack

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:26:03 +0300
From:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
To:	<tony@...mide.com>
CC:	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>, <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	<robdclark@...il.com>, <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	<linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>, <jsarha@...com>,
	<dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/27] fb/drm: omapdss: Clean up the headers and
 separate the two stack

Hi Tony,

On 01/06/16 11:35, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - patches (2) added to remove the inclusion of video/omap-panel-data.h when it
>   is not needed
> - Transitional patch to create the video/omapfb_dss.h has been changed to copy
>   the content of the omapdss.h in one step.
> 
> omapfb is deprecated. It will not receive new features, only bug fixes. On the.
> other hand omapdrm is in active development and the fact that both
> implementation (omapfb and omapdrm) is using the same header file
> (video/omapdss.h) makes implementing new features or doing bigger clean ups in
> omapdrm harder and hared as the change should not break omapfb.
> 
> To overcome this issue we need to separate the two implementation. This is the
> aim of this series:
> Create platform_data header for omapdss,
> clean up the header usage and dependencies,
> new header file for omapfb stack (video/omapfb_dss.h)
> local omapdss.h header file for omapdrm.

Tony, can you have a look at the arch/arm parts here and give your ack
if they're fine? They should be quite small and display specific, so I
don't see much chance for conflict there.

 Tomi



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