On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 03:22:20PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:15:32PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > Yes the idea would be a special-purpose allocater thing like ion. Might > > even want that to be a syscall to do it properly. > > Would you care to elaborate why a syscall would be more proper? Not that > I'm objecting to it, just for my education. It seems to be the theme with someone proposing a global /dev node for a few system wide ioctls, then reviewers ask to make a proper ioctl out of it. E.g. kdbus, but I have vague memory of this happening a lot. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
