On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 05:11:24PM +0000, James Addison wrote: > Thanks, Maxime. > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 09:47, Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 06:32:53PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [...] > > > [...] > > > > > > Looking at the previous posting of this patch upstream, it was not clear > > > to me why the patch wasn't applied. Maxime, do you know what happened? > > > > > > Would it be worth submitting James's updated patch as a v3? > > > > If I remember well, my series was considered a workaround to a bug > > triggered by an obsolete mechanism in the kernel. > > > > So it was advocated that we should get rid of that mechanism instead, > > and thus this series would be made irrelevant. However, removing that > > mechanism triggered a few regressions in some drivers, so it never went > > through, and my series was forgotten about. > > > > It's been in limbo ever since. > > Is that potential cleanup related to the legacy cursor update > mechanism? The reason I ask: I found a LKML thread from Feb 2023 > about that, and it mentions some MSM (Adreno?) regressions. > > (I'm not hyperlinking to it yet though, in case I'm on the wrong track) Yes, it is https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220331152021.2671937-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch/#t I've ping'd the msm maintainers after sending that mail, I'll try again once the holiday season is over. Maxime
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