linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] drm/sitronix: Remove broken backwards-compatibility layer

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Message-ID: <87h616tqah.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 10:24:06 +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

Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com> writes:

> 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>
>
> -- 

Pushed to drm-misc (drm-misc-next). Thanks!

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat