From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Marchesin <marchesin@icps.u-strasbg.fr>,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:34:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080811013413.GB28884@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080806102437.2d5e5d11@infradead.org>
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:24:37AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> the ATI driver guys already have the interface working.
>
> In addition.. since when is "oh you must also make it work for THAT" a
> requirement? Traditionally, it's up to the second person to make
> generic code work for them (within reason of course, but I'll argue
> that the bar of reasonableness has been met here)
Important difference between code and interfaces. GEM is adding new
userspace interface, and it's current form rather ugly ones. We'd
better think about these hard, and make sure they are useful for the
whole usecase and not a limited subset.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-11 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 6:58 [PATCH] PCI: Add pci_read_base() API Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 6:58 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 6:58 ` [PATCH] drm: Add GEM ("graphics execution manager") to i915 driver Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 15:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-08-01 18:11 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-06 1:11 ` Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 7:10 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 10:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-01 18:06 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-01 20:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-01 23:01 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-03 12:49 ` John Stoffel
2008-08-03 17:52 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-03 23:35 ` files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM) Ingo Oeser
2008-08-04 0:19 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 8:19 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-04 13:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 14:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-04 16:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 16:58 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 21:46 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-08-04 22:20 ` Dave Airlie
2008-08-05 0:34 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-11 1:23 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-11 3:03 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup " Keith Packard
2008-08-04 1:54 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage " Keith Packard
2008-08-04 9:02 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-04 10:26 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-04 11:45 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 17:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-04 17:25 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 18:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-04 19:20 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 19:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-04 21:37 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-05 2:25 ` John Stoffel
2008-08-05 4:28 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-06 16:20 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-06 17:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-06 17:32 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-06 17:56 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-06 18:09 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-06 21:22 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-07 2:16 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-07 2:57 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-11 1:34 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-08-05 4:28 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-11 1:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-04 21:58 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 22:22 ` Dave Airlie
2008-08-05 4:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-05 5:19 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-07 0:45 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-08-19 1:17 ` Dave Airlie
2008-08-19 10:00 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-19 16:46 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-19 18:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-08-21 13:42 ` Jerome Glisse
2008-08-21 16:15 ` Jesse Barnes
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