From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43FFC433F5 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAA560F22 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233348AbhJYMy7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:54:59 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:56122 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233294AbhJYMy5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:54:57 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF14860F22; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:52:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1635166354; bh=hzcwhkDL3CBQc33Ym3Rph81drL4E7gP6JSF8mSD53Ek=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Ujg9laVlPovWEsNLmo+33wfgDma3MzjiPOcthwAAH8hjWCn3dZrT/LiVkOg9yfmcg N627/jaQZYzx6La2p5PpGMMpsZ8mFcW1e2TvhEqTPIcNwNkU/nM0jYTiCPQqL8nWDJ WA1Yk+EOMmq7PuehYNSihg5vaBQkN0Jqea4rQzK4= Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:52:32 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Sumit Semwal Cc: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= , Alex Deucher , David Airlie , Daniel Vetter , "Pan, Xinhui" , LKML , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , DRI mailing list , Daniel Vetter , Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dma-buf: move dma-buf symbols into the DMA_BUF module namespace Message-ID: References: <20211010124628.17691-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <7328189c-0567-847e-17e9-e2ed4f3a78f4@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 05:43:49PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 16:29, Christian König wrote: > > > > Am 25.10.21 um 12:36 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 02:46:28PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > >> In order to better track where in the kernel the dma-buf code is used, > > >> put the symbols in the namespace DMA_BUF and modify all users of the > > >> symbols to properly import the namespace to not break the build at the > > >> same time. > > >> > > >> Now the output of modinfo shows the use of these symbols, making it > > >> easier to watch for users over time: > > >> > > >> $ modinfo drivers/misc/fastrpc.ko | grep import > > >> import_ns: DMA_BUF > > >> > > >> Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" > > >> Cc: David Airlie > > >> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst > > >> Cc: Maxime Ripard > > >> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann > > >> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab > > >> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > >> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter > > >> Acked-by: Christian König > > >> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann > > >> Acked-by: Sumit Semwal > > >> Acked-by: Alex Deucher > > >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > >> --- > > >> v2: added lots of acks > > >> added 2 more drivers that needed the change, as found by Arnd > > > Ping? Any ideas on what needs to happen to get this into the tree? > > > > > > Or can I take it through my char-misc tree? I seem to have a bunch of > > > acks on it by the respective maintainers... > > > > I could push that upstream through the drm-misc-next tree if you like, > > but honestly char-misc sounds like the better approach since this > > touches a lot of drivers outside of drm as well. > > I agree with Christian here - char-misc might be a better way for this. Good idea, I'll take it through this tree as it will need to add the symbol to the habanalabs driver at the same time as it has picked up support for these symbols in my tree. thanks, greg k-h