From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, kernel-list@raspberrypi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/50] staging: vchiq: Getting rid of the vchi/vchiq split
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:34:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200625143430.GA3898215@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200623164235.29566-1-nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 06:41:46PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> vchi acts as a mid layer between vchiq and its kernel services, while
> arguably providing little to no benefit: half of the functions exposed
> are a 1:1 copy of vchiq's, and the rest provide some functionality which
> can be easly integrated into vchiq without all the churn. Moreover it
> has been found in the past as a blockage to further fixes in vchiq as
> every change needed its vchi counterpart, if even possible.
>
> Hence this series, which merges all vchi functionality into vchiq and
> provies a simpler and more concise API to services.
>
> I'm aware that kernel's vchi API tries to mimic its userspace
> counterpart (or vice versa). Obviously this breaks the parity, but I
> don't think it's a sane goal to have. There is little sense or gain from
> it, and adds impossible constraints to upstreaming the driver.
>
> Overall this fall short of removing 1100 lines of code, which is pretty
> neat on itself.
>
> So far it has been tested trough bcm2835-camera, audio and vchiq-test. I
> can't do much about vc-sm-cma for now as it's only available downstream,
> but I made sure not to break anything and will provide some patches for
> the RPi devs to pick-up, so as to make their life easier.
>
> Note that in order to keep the divergence between the downstream and
> upstream versions of this as small as possible I picked up some
> mmal-vchiq patches that might not be absolutely necessary to the goal of
> the series.
I took the first 2 patches and will wait for the rest to be resent :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-23 16:41 [PATCH 00/50] staging: vchiq: Getting rid of the vchi/vchiq split Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 01/50] staging: bcm2835: Break MMAL support out from camera Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 19:20 ` kernel test robot
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 02/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Allocate and free components as required Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 03/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Avoid use of bool in structures Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 22:11 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-24 10:26 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 04/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Make timeout a defined parameter Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 05/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Make a mmal_buf struct for passing parameters Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 06/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Fixup vchiq-mmal include ordering Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 07/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Fix client_component for 64 bit kernel Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 08/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Always return the param size from param_get Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 09/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: If the VPU returns an error, don't negate it Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 10/50] staging: mmal-vchiq: Fix formatting errors in mmal_parameters.h Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 11/50] staging: vchiq_arm: Add a matching unregister call Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 12/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of all useless callback reasons Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:41 ` [PATCH 13/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of vchi_msg_peek() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 14/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of struct vchi_instance_handle Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 15/50] staging: vchi: Unify struct shim_service and struct vchi_service_handle Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-24 14:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-06-24 14:13 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 16/50] staging: vc04_services: bcm2835-audio: Use vchi_msg_hold() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 17/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of vchi_msg_dequeue() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 18/50] staging: vchi_common: Get rid of all unused definitions Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 19/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of unnecessary defines Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 20/50] staging: vc04_services: Get rid of vchi_cfg.h Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 21/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of flags argument in vchi_msg_hold() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 22/50] staging: vchi: Use enum vchiq_bulk_mode instead of vchi's transmission flags Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 23/50] staging: vchi: Use vchiq's enum vchiq_reason Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 24/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of effect less expression Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 25/50] staging: vchiq: Introduce vchiq_validate_params() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 26/50] staging: vchiq: Move message queue into struct vchiq_service Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 27/50] staging: vchiq: Get rid of vchiq_util.h Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 28/50] staging: vchi: Expose struct vchi_service Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 29/50] staging: vchiq: Export vchiq_get_service_userdata() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 30/50] staging: vchiq: Export vchiq_msg_queue_push Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 31/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of vchiq_shim's message callback Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 32/50] staging: vchiq: Don't use a typedef for vchiq_callback Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 33/50] staging: vchi: Use struct vchiq_service_params Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 34/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of struct vchi_service Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 35/50] staging: vchiq: Pass vchiq's message when holding a message Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 36/50] staging: vchi: Rework vchi_msg_hold() to match vchiq_msg_hold() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 37/50] staging: vchiq: Unify fourcc definition mechanisms Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 38/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of struct vchiq_instance forward declaration Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 39/50] staging: vchi: Don't include vchiq_core.h Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 40/50] staging: vchiq: Get rid of unnecessary definitions in vchiq_if.h Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 41/50] staging: vchiq: Make vchiq_add_service() local Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 42/50] staging: vchiq: Move definitions only used by core into core header Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 43/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of vchi_bulk_queue_receive() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 44/50] staging: vchi: Get rid of vchi_bulk_queue_transmit() Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 45/50] staging: vchi: Move vchi_queue_kernel_message() into vchiq Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 46/50] staging: vchiq: Get rid of vchi Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 47/50] staging: vchiq: Move conditional barrier definition into vchiq_core.h Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 48/50] staging: vchiq: Use vchiq.h as the main header file for services Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 49/50] staging: vchiq: Move defines into core header Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-23 16:42 ` [PATCH 50/50] staging: vchiq: Move vchiq.h into include directory Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-25 8:24 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-06-25 14:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
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