Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755030AbYHKBec (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:34:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752833AbYHKBeZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:34:25 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:46995 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752524AbYHKBeY (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:34:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:34:13 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Stephane Marchesin , Keith Packard , John Stoffel , Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Christoph Hellwig , Eric Anholt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM Message-ID: <20080811013413.GB28884@infradead.org> References: <1217850352.24714.66.camel@koto.keithp.com> <1217870748.24714.79.camel@koto.keithp.com> <1217877645.24714.87.camel@koto.keithp.com> <18583.47633.987143.236236@stoffel.org> <1217910505.24714.152.camel@koto.keithp.com> <6a89f9d50808060920t168d533g5d440b444e7c09fc@mail.gmail.com> <20080806102437.2d5e5d11@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080806102437.2d5e5d11@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 18 On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:24:37AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > the ATI driver guys already have the interface working. > > In addition.. since when is "oh you must also make it work for THAT" a > requirement? Traditionally, it's up to the second person to make > generic code work for them (within reason of course, but I'll argue > that the bar of reasonableness has been met here) Important difference between code and interfaces. GEM is adding new userspace interface, and it's current form rather ugly ones. We'd better think about these hard, and make sure they are useful for the whole usecase and not a limited subset. -- 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/