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From: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
	<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Madajczak, Tomasz" <Tomasz.Madajczak@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revert "drm/i915: Reject the pin ioctl on gen6+"
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 22:47:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141002214719.GA29056@strange.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM=9tzqWDkSB3-v6g2d8M5hC6En4M5=MmeBx4F=ymE5To1yag@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dave,

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:12:53AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> I thought we had an agreement that no features that were specific to
> the non-open source userspace drivers would be merged to the kernel,
> due to security and maintenance concerns, i.e. exactly this concern,
> we now have to maintain an interface that we can't regression test in
> public.

Actually, the pin ioctl() has been here for quite some time, since the
introduction of GEM, see: 

  http://lwn.net/Articles/283798/ section 8.2

That's why one side is arguing that it's not acceptable to break
user-space (open or closed , it doesn't matter at this point).

Daniel is saying that's a legacy artefact and it shouldn't be used
anymore, but breaking a user-space application is enough for me to at
least suggest a revert.

HTH,

-- 
Damien

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-03  7:12 [PATCH] drm/i915: Revert "drm/i915: Reject the pin ioctl on gen6+" Damien Lespiau
2014-07-03  7:35 ` Chris Wilson
2014-07-07 21:04 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-07-07 21:18   ` Jesse Barnes
2014-09-19 14:25   ` Damien Lespiau
2014-09-19 15:34     ` Daniel Vetter
2014-10-02 10:40       ` Bloomfield, Jon
2014-10-02 21:12         ` Dave Airlie
2014-10-02 21:47           ` Damien Lespiau [this message]

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