From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export tiny shmem_file_setup for DRM-GEM
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:02:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224525754.4323.21.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810191242220.22825@blonde.site>
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 12:52 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> We're trying to keep the !CONFIG_SHMEM tiny-shmem.c (using ramfs without
> swap) in synch with CONFIG_SHMEM shmem.c (and mpm is preparing patches
> to combine them). I was glad to see EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_file_setup)
> go into shmem.c, but why not support DRM-GEM when !CONFIG_SHMEM too?
> But caution says still depend on MMU, since !CONFIG_MMU is.. different.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Hugh, what path do you usually take for upstreaming shmem bits and what
path should I take with my unify patch?
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 11:52 [PATCH] Export tiny shmem_file_setup for DRM-GEM Hugh Dickins
2008-10-20 18:02 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-10-20 18:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-20 19:38 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-20 20:20 ` Dave Airlie
2008-10-20 23:04 ` Hugh Dickins
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