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But what we should try to avoid is that newly merged drivers provideSorry, I didn't understand this. I think we have not change the UAPI.
both a driver specific UAPI and DMA-heaps. The justification that
this
makes it easier to transit userspace to the new UAPI doesn't really
count.
That would be adding UAPI already with a plan to deprecate it and
that
is most likely not helpful considering that UAPI must be supported
forever as soon as it is upstream.
Which code are you referring to?
My fault, I thought dma-buf and media belonged to the different tree,So I think this patch is a little confusing in this series, as Idon't
see much of it actually being used here (though forgive me if I'mhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20230911125936.10648-1-yunfei.dong@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
missing it).
Instead, It seems it get used in a separate patch series here:
Please try to avoid stuff like that it is really confusing and eats
reviewers time.
so I send them separately. The cover letter just said "The consumers of
the new heap and new interface are our codecs and DRM, which will be
sent upstream soon", and there was no vcodec link at that time.
In the next version, we will put the first three patches into the
vcodec patchset.
Thanks.