2015-11-24 Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 11/23/15 11:41 AM, Gustavo Padovan wrote: > >+ - remove sw_sync, it is used only for testing/debugging and should not be > >+upstreamed. > >+ - port sw_sync testcases to use debugfs somehow > > A quick but important nitpick: > > sw_sync itself is just an in-kernel helper for creating fences, when you > don't have something like sync timeline primitives baked into your hardware. > > CONFIG_SW_SYNC_USER adds the interface for creating and signaling sw_sync > objects from userspace. This is the part that's dangerous and only intended > for testing, etc. > > AFAIK CONFIG_SW_SYNC_USER is the only part people have been objecting to. > I'm fine with removing it. Removing the kernel-facing side of sw_sync would > be a problem for us, since many drivers use it to create their fences. Right, I probably misundertood things, I'm okay with removing only CONFIG_SW_SYNC_USER and if others are okay too I'll just send an updated patch for the TODO. Gustavo _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
