Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753906AbdCFQNM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:13:12 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:33711 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752709AbdCFQMw (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:12:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:04:37 +0100 From: Daniel Vetter To: Mark Brown Cc: Michal Hocko , Laura Abbott , Sumit Semwal , Riley Andrews , arve@android.com, romlem@google.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Brian Starkey , Daniel Vetter , Benjamin Gaignard , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Ion cleanup in preparation for moving out of staging Message-ID: <20170306160437.sf7bksorlnw7u372@phenom.ffwll.local> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Brown , Michal Hocko , Laura Abbott , Sumit Semwal , Riley Andrews , arve@android.com, romlem@google.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Brian Starkey , Daniel Vetter , Benjamin Gaignard , linux-mm@kvack.org References: <1488491084-17252-1-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com> <20170303132949.GC31582@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170306074258.GA27953@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170306104041.zghsicrnadoap7lp@phenom.ffwll.local> <20170306105805.jsq44kfxhsvazkm6@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170306105805.jsq44kfxhsvazkm6@sirena.org.uk> X-Operating-System: Linux phenom 4.8.0-1-amd64 User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 26 On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:58:05AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:40:41AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > No one gave a thing about android in upstream, so Greg KH just dumped it > > all into staging/android/. We've discussed ION a bunch of times, recorded > > anything we'd like to fix in staging/android/TODO, and Laura's patch > > series here addresses a big chunk of that. > > > This is pretty much the same approach we (gpu folks) used to de-stage the > > syncpt stuff. > > Well, there's also the fact that quite a few people have issues with the > design (like Laurent). It seems like a lot of them have either got more > comfortable with it over time, or at least not managed to come up with > any better ideas in the meantime. See the TODO, it has everything a really big group (look at the patch for the full Cc: list) figured needs to be improved at LPC 2015. We don't just merge stuff because merging stuff is fun :-) Laurent was even in that group ... -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch