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From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
To: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/doc: document that PRIME import/export is always supported
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:45:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecb43bcd-6907-e1e8-3c8c-63bde258c739@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F07F7XO3_lxljay8DZbVRbLevY3p4np8Pt11PsA_RWIV9Hkc1QKGlby5uBZPcCiQtEdLFBOjG0c2Sy528P3G3yNreQckRzFjWkNuPa-CNKY=@emersion.fr>


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Am 13.07.23 um 09:17 schrieb Simon Ser:
> On Thursday, July 13th, 2023 at 07:09, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:
> 
>>> + * Starting from kernel version 6.6, both &DRM_PRIME_CAP_IMPORT and
>>> + * &DRM_PRIME_CAP_EXPORT are always advertised.
>>> + *
>>
>> When people port these changes into their trees the version becomes
>> meaningless. There are so many "enterprise kernels" that combine whole
>> subsystems from different upstream releases.
>>
>> That makes me wonder if such documentation makes sense. We want to avoid
>> a situation where userspace does
>>
>> if (v6.6)
>> do()
>> else if (test_flags())
>> do()
> 
> Daniel Vetter asked for specific kernel versions in b603e810f740
> ("drm/uapi: document kernel capabilities"). It allows user-space to
> figure out how widespread a cap is.

Well, OK then... :)


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      reply	other threads:[~2023-07-13  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-12 18:32 [PATCH] drm/doc: document that PRIME import/export is always supported Simon Ser
2023-07-12 18:37 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-07-13  5:09 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2023-07-13  7:17   ` Simon Ser
2023-07-13  7:45     ` Thomas Zimmermann [this message]

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