linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] drm/sti: hdmi: drop driver owner assignment

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Message-ID: <78384e57-4139-47c9-ae5a-480c0d6b9daa@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 12:04:28 +0200
From: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] drm/sti: hdmi: drop driver owner assignment

On 05/07/2024 11:59, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 04/06/2024 15:18, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 27/05/2024 16:47, Alain Volmat wrote:
>>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>>
>>> thanks for your patch, sorry for the delay.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 09:57:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> Core in platform_driver_register() already sets the .owner, so driver
>>>> does not need to.  Whatever is set here will be anyway overwritten by
>>>> main driver calling platform_driver_register().
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> I forgot two drivers.
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c | 1 -
>>>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c
>>>> index 500936d5743c..b0d84440a87b 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c
>>>> @@ -1485,7 +1485,6 @@ static void sti_hdmi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>>   struct platform_driver sti_hdmi_driver = {
>>>>   	.driver = {
>>>>   		.name = "sti-hdmi",
>>>> -		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
>>>>   		.of_match_table = hdmi_of_match,
>>>>   	},
>>>>   	.probe = sti_hdmi_probe,
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.34.1
>>>>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@...s.st.com>
>>
>> What does this ack mean? You are the maintainer, so what is supposed to
>> happen now? If maintainer does not take patches, then the DRM STI looks
>> orphaned.
> 
> +Cc Neil, Dmitry,
> 
> I pinged and pinged and wanted some sort of clarification here but one
> month passed and nothing was clarified.
> 
> I could be understanding the DRM process wrong, but if no one picks up
> trivial cleanups for 1.5 months, then to me subsystem is orphaned. I
> will send respective MAINTAINERS update.

Let's do that, if Alain doesn't take his own patches that were reviewed
then it should either be orphaned  or moved to drm-misc.

Neil

> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>