Thanks, Maxime. On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 09:47, Maxime Ripard <[email protected]> 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) James
