linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: vchiq: Update TODO file

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Message-ID: <20210930164911.GA4746@ojas>
Date:   Thu, 30 Sep 2021 22:19:11 +0530
From:   Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     nsaenz@...nel.org, stefan.wahren@...e.com,
        dan.carpenter@...cle.com, phil@...pberrypi.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vchiq: Update TODO file

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 09:10:44AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 11:43:23PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> > Remove completed tasks from TODO and add some relevant details to task
> > 14.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin98@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO | 43 ++++----------------
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO
> > index 39810ce017cd..5a6b3fc2663a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/TODO
> > @@ -16,23 +16,6 @@ some of the ones we want:
> >    to manage these buffers as dmabufs so that we can zero-copy import
> >    camera images into vc4 for rendering/display.
> >  
> > -2) Garbage-collect unused code
> > -
> > -One of the reasons this driver wasn't upstreamed previously was that
> > -there's a lot code that got built that's probably unnecessary these
> > -days.  Once we have the set of VCHI-using drivers we want in tree, we
> > -should be able to do a sweep of the code to see what's left that's
> > -unused.
> > -
> > -3) Make driver more portable
> > -
> > -Building this driver with arm/multi_v7_defconfig or arm64/defconfig
> > -leads to data corruption during the following command:
> > -
> > -  vchiq_test -f 1
> > -
> > -This should be fixed.
> > -
> >  4) Fix kernel module support
Hi Greg,
> 
> Now the numbering is out of order?
It was already out of order (No point 11). I assumed it was so that references to the
tasks nos in discussion that took place before this patch will make sense.
> 
> How about a first patch to remove the numbering and just replace it with
> a list of items that are not numbered, and then remove the tasks that
> are already done?
Sure I can do that.

Thanks for the review.
ojaswin
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h