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 From: jay@jp-hosting.net 
  
 Thanks, Maxime. 
  
 On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 09:47, Maxime Ripard  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 
  
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