linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/10] udmabuf: add MEMFD

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Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:40:10 +0300
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        "open list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" 
        <linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] udmabuf: add MEMFD_CREATE dependency

Hi Gerd,

Thank you for the patch.

On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 09:59:17 EEST Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> udmabuf builds without it, but if userspace can not create memfd
> handles in the first place it is rather pointless to include it.

Except perhaps for compile test coverage ? How about

	depends on MEMFD_CREATE || COMPILE_TEST

?

> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
> index 338129eb12..fc3fe3f04e 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ config UDMABUF
>  	bool "userspace dmabuf misc driver"
>  	default n
>  	depends on DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
> +	depends on MEMFD_CREATE
>  	help
>  	  A driver to let userspace turn memfd regions into dma-bufs.
>  	  Qemu can use this to create host dmabufs for guest framebuffers.


-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart