linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] De-stage Sync File Framework

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:45:51 -0300
From:	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk>
To:	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Daniel Stone <daniels@...labora.com>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Riley Andrews <riandrews@...roid.com>,
	Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
	Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
	John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@...el.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] De-stage Sync File Framework

2016-04-27 Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 01:27:07PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk>
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This patchset sits on top of Sync ABI Rework v13:
> > 
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg105667.html
> > 
> > The first eight clean up and prepare sync_file for de-staging. The last four
> > patches do the de-staging, moving files to drivers/dma-buf/ and include/linux/
> > plus adding Documentation.
> > 
> > As the de-stage depends upon many changes on the staging tree it would
> > be good to get all the patches merged through the staging tree if Sumit
> > agrees with that.
> > 
> > The next step on the Sync de-stage is clean up the remaining bits 
> > of the Sync Framework, mainly SW_SYNC, which is only used for testing.
> 
> Ok I looked once more at all this stuff, and there's some nitpicks I
> discussed with Gustavo on irc. But really their small, and I think
> perfectly ok to address them once sync_file is destaged. Especially since
> there's a lot more work pending on top of this, so we really want to get
> sync_file.[hc] destaged in 4.7. It'll take us a few iterations and a few
> drivers using this in anger in upstream to perfect the internal interfaces
> anyway, but let's get this started.
> 
> Had some real nitpicks on the docs patch, but that can also be merged
> later on imo. Except for that patch, on the series:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> 

Thanks for the review, I'm sending v2 fixing the nitpicks you pointed
out.

	Gustavo