Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:11:35PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Tue 19 May 21:59 PDT 2020, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:41:15PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > Ok, that's a decision you are going to have to push upward on, as we
> > > > really can't take this without a working, open, userspace.
> > > 
> > > Uh wut.
> > > 
> > > So the merge criteria for drivers/accel (atm still drivers/misc but I
> > > thought that was interim until more drivers showed up) isn't actually
> > > "totally-not-a-gpu accel driver without open source userspace".
> > > 
> > > Instead it's "totally-not-a-gpu accel driver without open source
> > > userspace" _and_ you have to be best buddies with Greg. Or at least
> > > not be on the naughty company list. Since for habanalabs all you
> > > wanted is a few test cases to exercise the ioctls. Not the entire
> > > userspace.
> > 
> > Habanalabs now has their full library opensourced that their tools use
> > directly, so that's not an argument anymore.
> > 
> > My primary point here is the copyright owner of this code, because of
> > that, I'm not going to objet to allowing this to be merged without open
> > userspace code.
> > 
> 
> So because it's copyright Linux Foundation you are going to accept it
> without user space, after all?

Huh, no, the exact opposite, sorry, drop the "not" in that above
sentence.  My bad.

greg k-h