linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/31] Rid W=1 warnings from Video

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:54:53 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Rid W=1 warnings from Video

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:11:01AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:04 AM Jani Nikula
> <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Lee,
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 02:49:38PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > >> > This set is part of a larger effort attempting to clean-up W=1
> > >> > kernel builds, which are currently overwhelmingly riddled with
> > >> > niggly little warnings.
> > >> >
> > >> > This patch-set clears all of the W=1 warnings currently residing
> > >> > in drivers/video.
> > >>
> > >> I am sorry to say that I expect most of your nice patches to clash
> > >> with patches that is already present in drm-misc-next.
> > >>
> > >> drivers/video/ are warning free with W=1 in drm-misc-next today.
> > >>
> > >> I do not know why drm-misc-next is not yet pullled into linux-next.
> > >
> > > Well that kinda sucks.  What are the chances of that?
> > >
> > > Most of my patches fix issues that have been there for years!
> 
> I planned to go through them all today, let's see what's still needed.

First bunch of patches are all not needed anymore, I think this is quicker
if you're rebasing. Unfortunate this happened :-/
-Daniel

> 
> > We auto-update the for-linux-next and for-linux-next-fixes branches, and
> > they seem to be up-to-date [1].
> 
> It only happened last week instead of right after -rc1 due to some
> confusion, but it should have been in linux-next for a few days
> already.
> 
> > How recent are the fixes, maybe because of this: [2]?
> >
> > BR,
> > Jani.
> >
> >
> > [1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
> > [2] http://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114113107.622102e0@canb.auug.org.au
> 
> Patch for that just got committted, so this shouldn't be too big a
> window for drm-misc-next to be excluded should have been very small.
> -Daniel
> 
> >
> > --
> > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch

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Daniel Vetter
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