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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/sitronix: move tiny Sitronix drivers to their own subdir
Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 11:27:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r013wgoy.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27a5f519-de87-4fab-b465-bb89ae5b988b@suse.de>

Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> writes:

Hello Thomas,

> Hi,
>
> there's one major issue here. You must not change the Kconfig symbols or 
> you'll break kernel updates for a lot of people. So those TINYDRM_* must 
> remain as is.
>

I disagree. The https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/abi.html document
explictly states that Kconfig symbols are not an ABI, and userspace
should not rely on these not changing over time.

> Best regards
> Thomas
>

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-05  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-03  8:13 Marcus Folkesson
2025-05-05  9:06 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2025-05-05  9:27   ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2025-05-05 10:19     ` Thomas Zimmermann
2025-05-05 11:00       ` Javier Martinez Canillas

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