[PATCH xserver] modesetting: resubmit dirty rects on EINVAL (v2)

[Michael Thayer]

On 18.07.2016 22:37, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 12:46 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> This error code can mean we're submitting more rects at once than the
>> driver can handle. If that happens, resubmit one at a time.
>>
>> v2: Make the rect submit loop more error-proof (Walter Harms)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
>
> Went ahead and merged this:
>
> remote: I: patch #99393 updated using rev 4b311d23e84356bd0e9e736aeed7448dd6382118.
> remote: I: 1 patch(es) updated to state Accepted.
> To ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver
>     8d3a368..4b311d2  master -> master

Thanks!  What are the chances of this getting back-ported to 1.17 and 
1.18?  That rather increases the chances that distributions will adopt 
the fix and that I will not have to write a nasty work-around in my 
kernel driver.

>
> - ajax

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