linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] drm/bridge: panel: Check device dependency before managing device link

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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:38:35 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
Cc:     daniel@...ll.ch, Liu Ying <victor.liu@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rafael@...nel.org,
        andrzej.hajda@...el.com, neil.armstrong@...aro.org,
        rfoss@...nel.org, Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com,
        jonas@...boo.se, jernej.skrabec@...il.com,
        maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, tzimmermann@...e.de,
        airlied@...il.com, angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com,
        ulf.hansson@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] drm/bridge: panel: Check device dependency before
 managing device link

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 1:32 PM Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org> wrote:
[Me]
> > It is a bigger evil to leave the tree broken than to enforce formal process,
> > and it is pretty self-evident. If any of them get annoyed about it we can
> > revert the patch, or both.
>
> Yeah, I definitely understand why you did it, but I don't think it's
> something we would encourage in drm-misc.

Hm OK I guess, it can be debated but no point in debating it either.

> We've discussed it with Sima yesterday, and I think we would even need
> the extra check in dim to make sure that a committer shouldn't do that
> without dim complaining.
(...)
> Sima played a bit with it, and it should be doable to get something
> fairly reliable if you use get_maintainers.pl to retrieve the git tree
> (through scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-email --no-l --scm) and figuring
> out if only drm.git, drm-intel.git or drm-misc.git is involved.
>
> If it isn't, then we should check that there's the ack of one of the
> maintainers.

So check for any code that is hitting namespaces outside drivers/gpu/*
Documentation/gpu/* or include/[uapi/]drm/* that it is ACKed by the respective
maintainer for that area of the kernel?

> Could you write a patch to do so?

Patch dim? Well my bash skills are a bit so-so. But I guess I could
learn it. But did you say there is already a prototype?

Yours,
Linus Walleij