linux-kernel - Re: Include ASPEED ast-drm 1.15.1 video driver in kernel tree

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Message-ID: <78ac8b58affdd365506fe72822e30f6f@3xo.fr>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:57:35 +0100
From: Nicolas Baranger <nicolas.baranger@....fr>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, airlied@...hat.com, Jocelyn Falempe
 <jfalempe@...hat.com>, Maarten Lankhorst
 <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Include ASPEED ast-drm 1.15.1 video driver in kernel tree

Hi Jani

> I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. The driver date was 
> removed
> because it was virtually never updated for any driver. It provided no
> useful information.

Sure your right, when I removed it from NVIDIA driver (to be able to 
build nvidia driver with DKMS on mainline), the .date value was still 
set to 20160202 !
See the PR here 
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/pull/783

I did just say that to be able to build and use the ast_new on mainline 
(6.14-rcX) I had to update the source which were working on linux-stable 
and to remove .date from drm structure.
That's why on the online directory there are 2 versions of the driver, 
one for linux-stable (up to 6.13.2) and one for mainline (from 
6.14.0-rc1).

Kind regards
Nicolas Baranger



Le 2025-02-24 09:53, Jani Nikula a écrit :

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025, Nicolas Baranger <nicolas.baranger@....fr> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, due to .date total removal in linux 6.14
>> (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cb2e1c2136f71618142557ceca3a8802e87a44cd)
>> the last DKMS sources are :
>> https://xba.soartist.net/ast-drm_nba_20250211/nba-dkms/nba_last_src_20250212/src/
> 
> I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. The driver date was 
> removed
> because it was virtually never updated for any driver. It provided no
> useful information.
> 
> BR,
> Jani.