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Message-ID: <87msb7ny2p.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 16:42:06 +0200
From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>, Marcus Folkesson
<marcus.folkesson@...il.com>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard
<mripard@...nel.org>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter
<simona@...ll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Geert
Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/sitronix: Remove broken backwards-compatibility
layer
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be> writes:
Hello Geert,
> When moving the Sitronix DRM drivers and renaming their Kconfig symbols,
> the old symbols were kept, aiming to provide a seamless migration path
> when running "make olddefconfig" or "make oldconfig".
>
> However, the old compatibility symbols are not visible. Hence unless
> they are selected by another symbol (which they are not), they can never
> be enabled, and no backwards compatibility is provided.
>
> Drop the broken mechanism and the old symbols.
>
> Fixes: 9b8f32002cddf792 ("drm/sitronix: move tiny Sitronix drivers to their own subdir")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> ---
Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
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Best regards,
Javier Martinez Canillas
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