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

Greg KH
2014-07-08T17:47:53Z

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 08:22:11PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> 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'!

Hey, I'm more than willing to have other people do the real work of
collecting / forwarding :)

I'll just review stuff as it floats by, that's not enough of a role to
put me in "MAINTAINERS" at all.

thanks,

greg k-h