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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5 v2] dma-buf: Add dma-buf heaps framework
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
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From:   "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>
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Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:49:15 -0500
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On 3/15/19 3:18 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 3/5/19 12:54 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>> +DMA-BUF HEAPS FRAMEWORK
>> +M:    Laura Abbott<labbott@redhat.com>
>> +R:    Liam Mark<lmark@codeaurora.org>
>> +R:    Brian Starkey<Brian.Starkey@arm.com>
>> +R:    "Andrew F. Davis"<afd@ti.com>
>> +R:    John Stultz<john.stultz@linaro.org>
>> +S:    Maintained
>> +L:    linux-media@vger.kernel.org
>> +L:    dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
>> +L:    linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org  (moderated for non-subscribers)
>> +F:    include/uapi/linux/dma-heap.h
>> +F:    include/linux/dma-heap.h
>> +F:    drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c
>> +F:    drivers/dma-buf/heaps/*
>> +T:    git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
> 
> So I talked about this with Sumit privately but I think
> it might make sense to have me step down as maintainer when
> this goes out of staging. I mostly worked on Ion at my
> previous position and anything I do now is mostly a side
> project. I still want to see it succeed which is why I
> took on the maintainer role but I don't want to become blocking
> for people who have a stronger vision about where this needs
> to go (see also, I'm not working with this on a daily basis).
> 
> If you just want someone to help review or take patches
> to be pulled, I'm happy to do so but I'd hate to become
> the bottleneck on getting things done for people who
> are attempting to do real work.
> 

We could consider this as an "ION inspired" framework, and treat it like
an extension of DMA-BUF. In which case Sumit could become the default
Maintainer if he's up for it.

Andrew

> Thanks,
> Laura