linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] drm/vkms: convert to use faux

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Message-ID: <Z6oPNmRo4XQQVEI8@louis-chauvet-laptop>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:37:42 +0100
From: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] drm/vkms: convert to use faux_device

On 10/02/25 - 13:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The vkms driver does not need to create a platform device, as there is
> no real platform resources associated it,  it only did so because it was
> simple to do that in order to get a device to use for resource
> management of drm resources.  Change the driver to use the faux device
> instead as this is NOT a real platform device.
> 
> Cc: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
> Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@...il.com>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
> Cc: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@...il.com>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
> Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Tested-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>

Thanks for the modification, it seems to work.

Louis chauvet