What to do about drm when 2.6.33 stable queue ceases

[Steve Conklin]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:02 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 02:38 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:18 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> >> On 05/27/2010 04:18 AM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> >>> I was reading LWN when I noticed that there is likely to be only one
> >>> more 2.6.33 stable release. What are our plans for the drm stack after
> >>> that? The rest of the kernel will be maintained through the long term
> >>> 2.6.32 stable releases. Should we be monitoring the drm changes there
> >>> and try to forward port fixes to our 10.04 LTS kernels?
> >>>
> >>> -- Chase
> >>>
> >>>
> >> My plan is to take drm patches from .34.y and onwards and see how long this
> >> reasonably works. Looking at 2.6.32.y makes imo no sense.
> > 
> > I thought one reason we went to .33 drm is the difficulty in backporting
> > graphics fixes. I would be afraid that the .34 stable fixes won't apply,
> > but I guess there's probably the same amount of delta between .34
> > and .33 as there is from .32 to .33.
> 
> Yes. there might be the time when the upstream tree has so much diverged that it
> is impossible to take things from there. That might be the point were we/I only
> can use patches specifically crafted for the .33 tree. Or are stuck with whats
> there as soon as the answer for fixes on .33 is the same as we got for .32.
> 
> -Stefan
> 
> > -- Chase
> > 
> 
> 

Tracking these patches is one of the things that my patch tracker tool
should make easier. I hope to find time soon to get some more work done
on that.

Steve
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