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 5B4BEC433FE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FA260FE8 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232905AbhJYMQ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:16:27 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36886 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231295AbhJYMQZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:16:25 -0400 Received: from mail-lj1-x229.google.com (mail-lj1-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::229]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 272D4C061745 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lj1-x229.google.com with SMTP id q16so8926855ljg.3 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:14:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9EdUhOEz6LCHy9Q4PpzvVDj9adp0XAbP/V+787pVMF0=; b=o+dWeZI/z6lqMSLsbil6YIyE1jqJSEN4+lcUSDasiWYLtPgepVuV9yRFGul/S+IZjd gDbGpaNe3bqNbRWJhQ8uzBY4CiicZs1uR5BS3+MoUCDorm+8eG2KGfZD1N4QFQhEcKYw xy7gxDmYOZRBm6yhyTEiLwdcWRAlH9ewRtC0Drmg6f6HGWdLbLyhETNKBPdWq8uo1CSV cbAWIYtOWs8A+jmLxHgpOUrmw4sE93EPz2L+YLH6FIq17e7sB4yGDacegypyYqkVZsfc +nFJF2hSn2fSDbNW7rTDUeK7o2Z6gvK87WT6kkz+wB0G7qLv3XjLyhikq5itsQnyPrpo L0lg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9EdUhOEz6LCHy9Q4PpzvVDj9adp0XAbP/V+787pVMF0=; b=PSYMKIwUr3scPO7Y9FPtx36wknhyGRvhZSJnRy5WtxZhmKZY5zG7F65nu0Jk5F38sD 9eTV755vWmTswq5T68FpGL6aW3Hw0FYWxvmVIWtjl0ioLwSFvjcL8encUkVJ/GO8W3KJ aLqU1JJQZftUnMkmxhoxFAZOWvOJEm1j4EMAQ57Rf7E38ejAXFpY0MJC79eEAq2swcNh YxUmRmcghrMYY4Yhx/NxhX9p9SlWlVXY9KbGnziZAdmHWV7Nwqfj1s5FH1rYOlZFBXFS 7CssS1w7F+CYpDWK9j/SBKCbJJyTSqWFt+HNs8keIcAzlmRRAzpcWL9ungqJ2/zp8z/m Rz+g== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532u21MgyeH51gt1jjZ0hcinEC3M5RXji7YQrk5fHYArM0Lu/jJ8 lpKq1ALmRBSW9TK1blsAT2n328u3TJesWPBHzVwUgA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxMcBXf08mQujD6/q+CS6va26l4F0UMxyQLEYHppTQUj1YDoHEdo/Gg27zgpNe8o6sYV7ePnDmBYzD5E0mpwE8= X-Received: by 2002:a05:651c:2328:: with SMTP id bi40mr18700746ljb.121.1635164041366; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:14:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20211010124628.17691-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <7328189c-0567-847e-17e9-e2ed4f3a78f4@amd.com> In-Reply-To: <7328189c-0567-847e-17e9-e2ed4f3a78f4@amd.com> From: Sumit Semwal Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:43:49 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dma-buf: move dma-buf symbols into the DMA_BUF module namespace To: =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=C3=B6nig?= Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 16:29, Christian K=C3=B6nig 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 K=C3=B6nig > >> 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. > > > Thanks, > Christian. > > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > Best, Sumit.