linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] drm/vgem/vgem_drv convert to use faux

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Message-ID: <2025070231-prism-unlatch-e99e@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 09:49:40 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] drm/vgem/vgem_drv convert to use faux_device

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 09:36:40AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Am 01.07.25 um 12:51 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > The vgem 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: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
> > Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
> > Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
> > Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> > v5: - rebased against 6.16-rc4 and resent as it seems to have been lost
> 
> Not lost, but thanks for the update. This patch and the one for vkms depend
> on "drm/gem-shmem: Do not map s/g table by default". [1] It'll land soon and
> the faux_device updates soon after.
> 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/150968/

Great, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h