Re: [PATCH 2/6] drm: writeback: Add out-fences for writeback connectors

[Brian Starkey]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:11:14PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:49:00 +0000
> Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add the OUT_FENCE_PTR property to writeback connectors, to enable
> > userspace to get a fence which will signal once the writeback is
> > complete. It is not allowed to request an out-fence without a
> > framebuffer attached to the connector.
> >
> > A timeline is added to drm_writeback_connector for use by the writeback
> > out-fences.
> >
> > In the case of a commit failure or DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_TEST_ONLY, the fence
> > is set to -1.
> >
> > Changes from v2:
> >  - Rebase onto Gustavo Padovan's v9 explicit sync series
> >  - Change out_fence_ptr type to s32 __user *
>
> Don't know what happened, but I still see s32 __user * types in this
> patch (I had to patch it to make in work on top of 4.11-rc1).

Yeah this really confused me too when rebasing. Given that this patch
predates Gustavo's change to s32 I can only assume I typo'd and meant
s64 in this commit message.

-Brian