linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm fixes for 5.17-rc8/final

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Message-ID: <c5d6fd7b-54ff-e407-2da8-ea2a6157fbff@leemhuis.info>
Date:   Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:51:53 +0100
From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To:     Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:     dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes for 5.17-rc8/final

On 11.03.22 06:15, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> As expected at this stage its pretty quiet, one sun4i mixer fix and
> one i915 display flicker fix.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave.
> 
> drm-fixes-2022-03-11:
> drm fixes for v5.17-rc8/final
> 
> i915:
> - psr fix screen flicker
> 
> sun4i:
> - mixer format fix.
> The following changes since commit ffb217a13a2eaf6d5bd974fc83036a53ca69f1e2:
> [...]

Out of curiosity: I might be missing something, but why wasn't the
(afaics simple) fix for a build problem caused by 9d6366e743f3 ("drm:
fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency") (merged for v5.16-rc1) not
among these fixes? I mean this one:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220203093922.20754-1-tzimmermann@suse.de/

It's sitting in next for a few days already:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=master&id=eea89dff4c39a106f98d1cb5e4d626f8c63908b9

I already asked a few days ago why this fix was not on track for merging
in this cycle, but I didn't get an answer:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/782a683e-c625-8e68-899b-ce56939afece@leemhuis.info/

Fun fact: It seems the problem and at a rough fix were already kinda
known mid November when 9d6366e743f3 was still in next:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211117062704.14671-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/

Then the issue was reported again two times in February:
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/CA+G9fYvN0NyaVkRQmA1O6rX7H8PPaZrUAD7=RDy33QY9rUU-9g@mail.gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YhofdlzadzRmy7tj@debian/

And the fix is relative simple, that's why I wonder why merging is
delayed. What am I missing?

Ciao, Thorsten