Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Updated fence patch series
From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jul 08 2014 - 10:39:35 EST
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 03:44:27PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
Sure, why not, what's one more maintainership...
Oh, does that mean you want me to be the one collecting the patches and
forwarding them on to Linus? If so, that's fine, I can easily do that
as well due to my infrastructure being set up for it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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