On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 05:01:14PM -0400, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 03:30:47PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > > Hi Andy,
> > > 
> > > Am Mittwoch, 3. September 2025, 13:07:38 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit 
> > > schrieb Andy Yan:
> > > > From: Andy Yan <andy....@rock-chips.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Convert it to drm bridge driver, it will be convenient for us to
> > > > migrate the connector part to the display driver later.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <andy....@rock-chips.com>
> > > 
> > > more like a general remark, this essentially conflicts with the
> > > big hiword-cleanup [0] that was merged today, as the inno-hdmi driver
> > > "lost" its separate HIWORD_UPDATE macro in favor a nicer generic one.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is, apart from waiting for
> > > 6.18-rc1.
> > 
> > I'd say, the correct way to handle would have been to:
> > - merge only FIELD_PREP_WM16 addition into bitmap-for-next using
> >   immutable tag
> > - merge the tag + all other patches into subsystem trees. Otherwise
> >   that series can cause a lot of conflicts with all affected subsystems.
> > 
> > Yury, would it be possible to implement this plan instead of pulling
> > everything through your tree?
> 
> Yeah, this is 100% technically correct way of moving things.
> 
> The problem is that driver maintainers are usually not quick taking
> this type of changes. In my experience, if we merge #1 only, we'll
> end up with just another flavor of HIWORD_UPDATE(), maybe adopted
> by a couple of drivers.
> 
> This is exactly opposite to the original goal of the series: nice and
> almost complete consolidation of scattered HIWORD_UPDATE() versions.
> 
> So far, there's the only conflict with the others, and Andy said he's
> OK to hold his series.
> 
> I would prefer to have all those patches in bitmap-for-next for a while.
> If there will be more conflicts, then yeah, I'll follow your route.
> Otherwise, let's keep things as they are, and encourage developers to
> test their patches against linux-next, as they normally should.

Ack, thanks for the explanation.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

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