Hi Sumit, On Tuesday 20 March 2012 20:45:00 Semwal, Sumit wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Tomasz Stanislawski wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > This patchset is an incremental patch to patchset created by Sumit Semwal > > [1]. The patches are dedicated to help find a better solution for support > > of buffer sharing by V4L2 API. It is expected to start discussion on the > > final installment for dma-buf in vb2-dma-contig allocator. Current > > version of the patches contain little documentation. It is going to be > > fixed after achieving consensus about design for buffer exporting. > > Moreover the API between vb2-core and the allocator should be revised. > > I like your approach in general quite a bit. > > May I request you, though, to maybe split it over into two portions - > the preparation patches, and the exporter portion. This would help as > the exporter portion is quite dependent on dma_get_pages and > dma-mapping patches. (Maybe also indirectly on DRM prime?) > > With that split, we could try to target the preparation patches for > 3.4 while we continue to debate on the exporter patches? I just saw > the dma-mapping pull request from Marek, so the dependencies might > become available soon. > > If you agree, then I can post the patch version of my 'v4l2 as dma-buf > user' patches, [except the patch that you've included in this series] > so we can try to hit 3.4 merge window. I've raised a couple of questions regarding the first patch, I'm afraid we will likely miss 3.4 :-/ If you consider important to get the patches in 3.4 I can try working with Tomasz to fix them ASAP. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
