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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@amd.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"Laurent Pinchart" <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	"Dana Elifaz" <Dana.Elifaz@amd.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Alexander Deucher" <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Will Deacon" <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Change order of linkage in kernel makefiles for amdkfd
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:56:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150109095642.GD27845@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54AE910E.5060803@amd.com>

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On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 04:15:42PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
> Generally I agree with the issues you describe in the current design.
> One task in our 2015 workplan is to change the whole method amdkfd is
> loaded, so it can independently load at any time, regardless of the order of
> loading between it and radeon and amd_iommu_v2. To reach that goal, I assume
> we will have to use some form of deferred probing.

Sounds good.

> However, for the moment, this is the best band-aid I could think of, and
> choosing between this band-aid or no band-aid at all, I prefer the former
> any day.

Looking at the patches, the dependency is documented in the Makefile. I
guess that's fine as a temporary band-aid.

Thierry

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-09  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-22 11:07 [PATCH 0/2] Change order of linkage in kernel makefiles for amdkfd Oded Gabbay
2014-12-22 11:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] drivers: Move iommu/ before gpu/ in Makefile Oded Gabbay
2014-12-23 12:09   ` Oded Gabbay
2014-12-26  0:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-22 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm: Put amdkfd before radeon in drm Makefile Oded Gabbay
2014-12-22 11:56 ` [PATCH 0/2] Change order of linkage in kernel makefiles for amdkfd Christian König
2014-12-25 13:20 ` Thierry Reding
2014-12-26  9:19   ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-12-28 11:36     ` Oded Gabbay
2014-12-29  8:16       ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-12-29  9:34         ` Christian König
2015-01-05 15:46           ` Thierry Reding
2015-01-08 14:15             ` Oded Gabbay
2015-01-09  9:56               ` Thierry Reding [this message]

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