Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-05-10 Thread Steven Price
On 10/05/2024 10:13, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2024, Steven Price wrote: >> On 29/04/2024 17:43, Jani Nikula wrote: >>> The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever >>> updated. The information is misleading at best. >>> >>> As described in

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-05-10 Thread Jani Nikula
On Thu, 09 May 2024, Steven Price wrote: > On 29/04/2024 17:43, Jani Nikula wrote: >> The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever >> updated. The information is misleading at best. >> >> As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: >> >> The driver date,

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-05-09 Thread Steven Price
On 29/04/2024 17:43, Jani Nikula wrote: > The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever > updated. The information is misleading at best. > > As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: > > The driver date, formatted as MMDD, is meant to identify the date >

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-05-08 Thread Jani Nikula
On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, Jani Nikula wrote: > The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever > updated. The information is misleading at best. > > As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: > > The driver date, formatted as MMDD, is meant to identify the date >

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-30 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 04:38:55PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > Might also be a good idea to wait a bit in case there's any regression > > reports for really old userspace. But I guess there's not a high chance > > for that to happen here, so imo fine

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-30 Thread Jani Nikula
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Daniel Vetter wrote: > Might also be a good idea to wait a bit in case there's any regression > reports for really old userspace. But I guess there's not a high chance > for that to happen here, so imo fine to just go ahead right away. This small bit is definitely easier to

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-30 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 08:53:15PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, Hamza Mahfooz wrote: > > On 4/29/24 12:43, Jani Nikula wrote: > >> The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever > >> updated. The information is misleading at best. > >> > >> As described in

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-30 Thread Jani Nikula
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Simon Ser wrote: > On Monday, April 29th, 2024 at 18:43, Jani Nikula > wrote: > >> The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever >> updated. The information is misleading at best. >> >> As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: >> >> The

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-30 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
Jani Nikula writes: > The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever > updated. The information is misleading at best. > > As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: > > The driver date, formatted as MMDD, is meant to identify the date > of the latest

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-30 Thread Simon Ser
On Monday, April 29th, 2024 at 18:43, Jani Nikula wrote: > The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever > updated. The information is misleading at best. > > As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: > > The driver date, formatted as MMDD, is meant to

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-29 Thread Jani Nikula
On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, Hamza Mahfooz wrote: > On 4/29/24 12:43, Jani Nikula wrote: >> The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever >> updated. The information is misleading at best. >> >> As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: >> >>The driver date,

Re: [PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-29 Thread Hamza Mahfooz
On 4/29/24 12:43, Jani Nikula wrote: The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever updated. The information is misleading at best. As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: The driver date, formatted as MMDD, is meant to identify the date of the latest

[PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

2024-04-29 Thread Jani Nikula
The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever updated. The information is misleading at best. As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: The driver date, formatted as MMDD, is meant to identify the date of the latest modification to the driver. However, as