On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Deucher, Alexander
<alexander.deuc...@amd.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lukas Wunner [mailto:lu...@wunner.de]
>> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 11:51 PM
>> To: Michel Dänzer
>> Cc: Nicolai Stange; Sean Paul; Deucher, Alexander; dri-
>> de...@lists.freedesktop.org; amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; Koenig,
>> Christian
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Fix oops upon driver load on PowerXpress
>> laptops
>>
>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:09:49PM +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> > On 22/05/17 11:04 PM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
>> > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 09:31:09AM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
>> > >> On Thu, May 18 2017, Lukas Wunner wrote:
>> > > [snip]
>> > >>> Reported-by: Nicolai Stange <nicsta...@gmail.com>
>> > >>> Fixes: 7ffb0ce31cf9 ("drm/radeon: Don't register Thunderbolt eGPU
>> with vga_switcheroo")
>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lu...@wunner.de>
>> > >>> ---
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Awaiting a Tested-by: from Nicolai, but it's clear this is a bug and
>> > >>> needs to be fixed, so sending out with a proper commit message now.
>> > >>> The bug was only introduced to radeon, not amdgpu.
>> > >>
>> > >> Tested-by: Nicolai Stange <nicsta...@gmail.com>
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks for the quick fix!
>> > >>
>> > >>> @Alex Deucher: I could push this to drm-misc-fixes but then it
>> wouldn't
>> > >>> land before -rc3 because Sean Paul has already sent out the -rc2 pull.
>> > >>> I notice you haven't sent out a pull for -rc2 yet, so maybe you want to
>> > >>> take it yourself?  Whichever you prefer.  Thanks & sorry for the
>> breakage!
>> > >
>> > > I've learned this morning that Alex is on vacation.
>> >
>> > Christian König is standing in for Alex.
>>
>> By his own account, he already has "all hands full replacing him [Alex]",
>> explicitly asked Daniel to merge an amdgpu patch through drm-misc-next for
>> this reason and lacks permission to update branches in Alex' repo on fdo:
>>
>> "One lesson learned from the past week is that Alex needs to stop using
>> his personal repository on fdo.
>> We were asked a couple of times if I couldn't update a branch there from
>> different directions, which we obviously can't do."
>>
>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-May/142376.html
>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-May/142380.html
>>
>
> What tree we use for pull requests is irrelevant.  We need to follow the 
> proper protocol.  In the future patches like this should have an ack or rb 
> and should flow through the radeon tree.
>
>>
>> > > I've pushed the patch to drm-misc-fixes so that the issue is fixed in
>> > > 4.12-rc3.
>> >
>> > I don't think there was any particular need to bypass the normal radeon
>> > tree for this. There was plenty of time for the fix to get into 4.12
>> > final, even after Alex is back.
>>
>> Well, it wouldn't be nice towards users affected by the same issue
>> who may waste time with bisecting to just sit on a fix twiddling thumbs.
>
> We also need to try and avoid regressions and try and flow changes through 
> proper trees.  There is always going to be some delay in getting changes 
> upstream.

Sorry for piling on, I hadn't quite caught up with the whole thread
yet.  In the end no harm done.

Alex

>
> Alex
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lukas
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