linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Ion cleanup in preparation for moving out of staging

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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:04:37 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Riley Andrews <riandrews@...roid.com>, arve@...roid.com,
        romlem@...gle.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@....com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Ion cleanup in preparation for moving out of
 staging

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:58:05AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:40:41AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> > No one gave a thing about android in upstream, so Greg KH just dumped it
> > all into staging/android/. We've discussed ION a bunch of times, recorded
> > anything we'd like to fix in staging/android/TODO, and Laura's patch
> > series here addresses a big chunk of that.
> 
> > This is pretty much the same approach we (gpu folks) used to de-stage the
> > syncpt stuff.
> 
> Well, there's also the fact that quite a few people have issues with the
> design (like Laurent).  It seems like a lot of them have either got more
> comfortable with it over time, or at least not managed to come up with
> any better ideas in the meantime.

See the TODO, it has everything a really big group (look at the patch for
the full Cc: list) figured needs to be improved at LPC 2015. We don't just
merge stuff because merging stuff is fun :-)

Laurent was even in that group ...
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch