Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Updated fence patch series

Sumit Semwal
2014-07-08T14:52:32Z

On 8 July 2014 20:09, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 03:44:27PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:30:52AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:23:17PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > > >> Android can expose fences to userspace. It's possible to make the new fence
>> > > >> mechanism expose the same fences to userspace by changing sync_fence_create
>> > > >> to take a struct fence instead of a struct sync_pt. No other change is needed,
>> > > >> because only the fence parts of struct sync_pt are used. But because the
>> > > >> userspace fences are a separate problem and I haven't really looked at it yet
>> > > >> I feel it should stay in staging, for now.
>> > > >
>> > > > Ok, that's reasonable.
>> > > >
>> > > > At first glance, this all looks "sane" to me, any objection from anyone
>> > > > if I merge this through my driver-core tree for 3.17?
>> > >
>> > > Ack from my side fwiw.
>> >
>> > Thanks, I'll queue it up later today.
>>
>> btw should we add you as a (co)maintainer for driver/core/dma-buf since
>> you seem to want to keep a closer tab on what the insane gfx folks are up
>> to in there?
>
> Sure, why not, what's one more maintainership...
>
> Oh, does that mean you want me to be the one collecting the patches and
> forwarding them on to Linus? If so, that's fine, I can easily do that
> as well due to my infrastructure being set up for it.
>
If you're ok, I could continue to do the collecting / forwarding
business - I guess Daniel meant more from the 'not miss patches that
need review'!

Upto you!
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Thanks and best regards,
~Sumit

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Thanks and regards,

Sumit Semwal
Graphics Engineer - Graphics working group
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