linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Updated fence patch series

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Message-ID: <20140708134427.GG17271@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:44:27 +0200
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>,
	"open list:GENERIC INCLUDE/A..." <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
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	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
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	"Clark, Rob" <robdclark@...il.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...gle.com>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
	"linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Updated fence patch series

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:30:52AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:23:17PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >> Android can expose fences to userspace. It's possible to make the new fence
> > >> mechanism expose the same fences to userspace by changing sync_fence_create
> > >> to take a struct fence instead of a struct sync_pt. No other change is needed,
> > >> because only the fence parts of struct sync_pt are used. But because the
> > >> userspace fences are a separate problem and I haven't really looked at it yet
> > >> I feel it should stay in staging, for now.
> > >
> > > Ok, that's reasonable.
> > >
> > > At first glance, this all looks "sane" to me, any objection from anyone
> > > if I merge this through my driver-core tree for 3.17?
> > 
> > Ack from my side fwiw.
> 
> Thanks, I'll queue it up later today.

btw should we add you as a (co)maintainer for driver/core/dma-buf since
you seem to want to keep a closer tab on what the insane gfx folks are up
to in there?
-Daniel
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Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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