From: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
To: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
"Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@amd.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
DRI mailing list <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dma-buf: move dma-buf symbols into the DMA_BUF module namespace
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:43:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO_48GE9C_eOK84iYwvNjkGQRcFQQ8Hn-z70ndOhmF1gbmd5BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7328189c-0567-847e-17e9-e2ed4f3a78f4@amd.com>
Hi Greg,
On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 16:29, Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> 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" <Xinhui.Pan@amd.com>
> >> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
> >> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> >> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
> >> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> >> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> >> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> >> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> >> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> >> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >> Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
> >> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >> ---
> >> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-25 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-10 12:46 [PATCH v2] dma-buf: move dma-buf symbols into the DMA_BUF module namespace Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-25 10:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-25 10:58 ` Christian König
2021-10-25 12:13 ` Sumit Semwal [this message]
2021-10-25 12:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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