Re: [PATCH] fence: Use smp_mb__before_atomic()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 05:56:36PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> Pending agreement on the need of fence.c (Rob has given the most
> prominent use case for it, and the lack of existing mechanisms to use
> already),

See my disagreement there :)

> would you be ok if I move all the dma-buf* and related (fence.c etc)
> to its own subdirectory and queue it up for this release?

This release (i.e. 3.16) is way too early.  You need to get agreement of
what gets into linux-next first, tested there, and then you can get it
merged into Linus's tree.

In the middle of the merge window is not the time to be moving files
around and disagreeing on if the code is needed or not at all.

So, again, please drop the code from your trees (or whomever trees this
code is in), resend it, notifying everyone involved, and we can take it
from there.

And yes, to be clear, this isn't going to make 3.16, sorry.

thanks,

gre k-h