Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753995AbaGHOwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:52:35 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com ([209.85.214.178]:63207 "EHLO mail-ob0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753401AbaGHOwc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:52:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140708143912.GA3436@kroah.com> References: <20140701103432.12718.82795.stgit@patser> <20140702053758.GA7578@kroah.com> <20140707173052.GA8693@kroah.com> <20140708134427.GG17271@phenom.ffwll.local> <20140708143912.GA3436@kroah.com> From: Sumit Semwal Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 20:22:11 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Updated fence patch series To: Greg KH Cc: Maarten Lankhorst , "open list:GENERIC INCLUDE/A..." , Thomas Hellstrom , Linux Kernel Mailing List , dri-devel , "linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org" , "Clark, Rob" , Thierry Reding , Colin Cross , "linux-media@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8 July 2014 20:09, Greg KH wrote: > 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 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. > If you're ok, I could continue to do the collecting / forwarding business - I guess Daniel meant more from the 'not miss patches that need review'! Upto you! > thanks, > > greg k-h Thanks and best regards, ~Sumit -- Thanks and regards, Sumit Semwal Graphics Engineer - Graphics working group Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/