From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: improve DRM fbdev emulation device names
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 19:18:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfd6fa47-497a-64bc-c2fc-a081bd41d5ec@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a6f9235-5375-b2cb-2d63-a47c5f9752bb@suse.de>
On 5/21/21 6:53 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> So what with all the drivers which do _not_ have drm in their name? Also
>> I'm never sure how much these are uapi or not ...
>
That someone could threat as an uapi is a fair point indeed.
> Why do we need a suffix anyway?
>
Yes, I thought the same and was torn about posting a patch to just remove
the suffix. I don't think users care that much if is a fb device from a
fbdev driver or a DRM driver using the fbdev emulation.
>> -Daniel
>>
Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer
New Platform Technologies Enablement team
RHEL Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-21 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-21 13:19 Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-05-21 13:19 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-05-21 15:33 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-21 15:33 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-21 16:53 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-05-21 17:18 ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2021-05-21 18:53 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-05-25 13:08 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-25 13:08 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-25 13:34 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-05-25 13:52 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
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