[PATCH 8/9] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Replace DRM_RCAR_HDMI by generic bridge options

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Mon Jul 10 07:05:56 PDT 2017


Hi Laurent,

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> On Monday 10 Jul 2017 15:28:21 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> The manual bridge implementation was removed in favor of the generic
>> one, so now we need to enable standard bridge drivers like
>> DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC and DRM_I2C_ADV7511.
>> Both were already enabled, but the (newer) ADV7511 audio part wasn't.
>>
>> Fixes: 5c602531feb3db39 ("drm: rcar-du: Replace manual bridge implementation
>> with DRM bridge")
>
> I wonder if this patch really needs a Fixes tag. All it does is removing a now
> deleted kernel option, and adding a new unrelated one. The former is related
> to 5c602531feb3db39, but I'm not sure it should be considered as a bug.

I added a Fixes tag because it aids backporting: if 5c602531feb3db39
is backported, the defconfig update should be backported, too.

> The content of this patch looks good to me though.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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