Hi Maarten, 2016-01-27 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hey, > > Op 27-01-16 om 14:30 schreef Gustavo Padovan: > > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > sync_file is useful to connect one or more fences to the file. The file is > > used by userspace to track fences. > > > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Is there a value in keeping the abi unchanged? > If not, then Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.txt is worth a read. None from me. I'll look where we can improve the ABI. > > Looking at the patch, it seems you kept SYNC_IOC_WAIT, won't it be better to remove it, and only support waiting with polling? > The code for polling should already work. Sure, that makes sense for me. > > It's very unclear what format @driver_data has. I kept it for compatibility with android, but it's not clear to me how a userspace consumer would print it. > Is there a usecase for this, or could it be removed from fence and sync_file? I don't have any usecase for this. I'd say we remove it for now and if someone needs this in the future we can talk about this again. Gustavo _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
