Re: [RFD] Proposal for merging Android sync driver in staging

[John Stultz]

On 02/27/2013 06:32 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 06:14:24PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> > I'd like to get a discussion going about submitting the Android sync
> > driver to staging.
> >
> > I know there is currently some very similar work going on with the
> > dmabuf-fences, and rather then both approaches being worked out
> > individually on their own, I suspect there could be better
> > collaboration around this effort.
> >
> > So my proposal is that we merge the Android sync driver into staging.
> >
> > In my mind, this has the following benefits:
> > 1) It allows other drivers that depend on the sync interface to also
> > be submitted to staging, rather then forcing those drivers to be
> > hidden away in various out of tree git repos, location unknown.
> >
> > 2) It would provide a baseline view to the upstream community of the
> > interface Android is using, providing  a real-world, active use case
> > of the functionality.
> >
> > Once the sync driver is in staging, if the dmabuf-fences work is
> > fully sufficient to replace the Android sync driver, we should be
> > able to whittle down the sync driver until its just a interface shim
> > (and at which point efforts can be made to convert Android userland
> > over to dmabuf-fences).
> Sounds like a good plan to me.
>
> > I've gone through the Android tree and reworked the sync driver to
> > live in staging, while still preserving the full patch
> > history/authorship. You can checkout the reworked patch queue here:
> >   http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/jstultz/android-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev/sync-staging
> I can't really look at a git tree at the moment, but will always be glad
> to review patches.  Feel free to send them on and we can look at them
> then :)

Ok, since I preserved the patch history, its currently 30 patches, and I 
didn't want to flood everyone's inboxes with patches (Greg: I know you'd 
never do such a thing! :) before making sure there weren't any 
objections to the idea in concept.

I'll send out the stack later today.

thanks
-john

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