Re: [PATCH 2/5] drm/virtio: add uapi for in and out explicit fences

[Emil Velikov]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 13:52, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:31:04AM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > HI Gerd,
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 06:11, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >   Hi,
> > >
> > > > The execbuffer IOCTL is now read-write to allow the userspace to read the
> > > > out-fence.
> > >
> > > >  #define DRM_IOCTL_VIRTGPU_EXECBUFFER \
> > > > -     DRM_IOW(DRM_COMMAND_BASE + DRM_VIRTGPU_EXECBUFFER,\
> > > > +     DRM_IOWR(DRM_COMMAND_BASE + DRM_VIRTGPU_EXECBUFFER,\
> > > >               struct drm_virtgpu_execbuffer)
> > >
> > > That changes the ioctl number and breaks the userspace api.
> > >
> > Have you looked at the drm_ioctl() implementation? AFAICT it
> > explicitly caters for this kind of changes.
>
> Looking ...
>
> The direction bits are not used to lookup the ioctl functions,
> so it should work indeed.
>
Nice, thanks for confirming.

> Series doesn't apply to drm-misc-next and needs a rebase.
>
Might be nicer to address that alongside any feedback. Otherwise it'll
be spamming people just for the sake of rebasing.

If i find some time I'll post some comments later on today.

HTH
Emil