[RFC PATCH 00/12] Ion cleanup in preparation for moving out of staging

Daniel Vetter
2017-03-06T16:04:37Z

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:58:05AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:40:41AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>
> > No one gave a thing about android in upstream, so Greg KH just dumped it
> > all into staging/android/. We've discussed ION a bunch of times, recorded
> > anything we'd like to fix in staging/android/TODO, and Laura's patch
> > series here addresses a big chunk of that.
>
> > This is pretty much the same approach we (gpu folks) used to de-stage the
> > syncpt stuff.
>
> Well, there's also the fact that quite a few people have issues with the
> design (like Laurent). It seems like a lot of them have either got more
> comfortable with it over time, or at least not managed to come up with
> any better ideas in the meantime.

See the TODO, it has everything a really big group (look at the patch for
the full Cc: list) figured needs to be improved at LPC 2015. We don't just
merge stuff because merging stuff is fun :-)

Laurent was even in that group ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation