Regards Shashank
On 11/7/2016 8:56 PM, Emil Velikov wrote: > On 7 November 2016 at 07:43, Sharma, Shashank <shashank.sharma at intel.com> > wrote: >> If I was not very clear for the first time, every time we send a patch to >> drm-intel/dri-devel, we do basic testing on Gnome-desktop too (Not only >> Android). >> >> So even these aspect ratio patches were tested with full gnome-desktop, and >> it worked well. >> >> > I guess the part that's not so obvious is that Linux > desktop/distributions provide a very wide permutation of components > and configs used. While on a local (test) setup only a small/limited > set is available. Esp. on Android where things are _very_ tightly > coupled. I agree, Emil. I was only mentioning my testing with Gnome, to confirm that intel-ddx is not broken with Gnome desktop. And I was testing on both Android as well as X. > Obviously nobody likes when we have to carry kernel patches which > workaround "broken" userspace, but it's a kernel policy and we all > have to live with it. That's the main reason people are so > careful/pedantic when it comes to UABI. And as you can see even then > there are bits that we miss :'-( I agree, again. But I was thinking if reverting the patch was the best way, else it would be impossible to add something new in the kernel. I hope experts like you and others can suggest the right way. > > Regards, > Emil
