linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Documentation/EDID fixes

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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:33:46 +0000
From:   Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     airlied@...ux.ie, C.Emde@...dl.org,
        linux-kernel@...ts.codethink.co.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Documentation/EDID fixes

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 06:16:51PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2017, Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org> wrote:
> > I found these two minor issues while building an EDID.  I'm not sure
> > whether the second patch (Add O= to support) is upstream material, but
> > I'm sending it just in case.
> 
> I'm not opposed to fixing existing issues like this, but really I think
> there should be an userspace tool for this. Definitely outside of the
> Documentation directory, perhaps even outside the kernel tree
> altogether.

I am not sure whether this should be in the kernel or not, but I
agree that Documentation/ doesn't look like the right place to build
these files.

Cheers,
Javi