Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: don't register the connector

[Brian Starkey]

Hi Sean,

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:22:40AM -0700, Sean Paul wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:39:18AM +0100, Brian Starkey wrote:
> > > Actually, could you please hold off picking this up? We need to make
> > > changes in mali-dp and hdlcd or this will mess up their registration.
> > > I will send those patches later today, but better if this all goes in
> > > together (whenever that ends up being).
> >
> > Sorry, but I'm annoyed with this - the impression being given was that
> > I was holding up this patch by not testing it on Armada, and I brought
> > up the issue about registration at the beginning of this.
> >
> > Now we're _just_ finding out that there are drivers where removing the
> > connector registration in tda998x causes them to break?  It's a bit
> > late to be checking your own drivers when you've been chasing me...
> >
> > Sorry, but it sounds like we're not ready to make this change - and as
> > it's the very last day that changes will appear in linux-next prior to
> > the merge window (assuming Linus releases 4.8 on Sunday), I'd suggest
> > holding off until after the merge window is over, so we can get some
> > testing with these other two drivers with this change in place.
>
> sigh. I just pushed my queue to drm-misc, which included this patch.
> Sounds like I should revert?

Yes, please revert this. There's a problem in the fbdev helper code
which stops me fixing this quickly, so better to revert it.

Very sorry for the mess.

-Brian

> Sean
>
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