From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752168AbdK0Lny (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:43:54 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51270 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751601AbdK0Lnw (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:43:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:43:57 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Benjamin Gaignard Cc: Laura Abbott , Sumit Semwal , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Riley Andrews , Mark Brown , Dan Carpenter , driverdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] staging: ion: create one device entry per heap Message-ID: <20171127114357.GB3710@kroah.com> References: <1509983985-20950-1-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <1509983985-20950-3-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <1e7fc718-825c-1028-1c28-a75a7320103f@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:46:18AM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > 2017-11-09 22:17 GMT+01:00 Laura Abbott : > > On 11/06/2017 07:59 AM, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > >> > >> Instead a getting only one common device "/dev/ion" for > >> all the heaps this patch allow to create one device > >> entry ("/dev/ionX") per heap. > >> Getting an entry per heap could allow to set security rules > >> per heap and global ones for all heaps. > >> > >> Allocation requests will be only allowed if the mask_id > >> match with device minor. > >> Query request could be done on any of the devices. > >> > > > > With this patch, sysfs looks like: > > > > $ ls /sys/devices/ > > breakpoint ion platform software system virtual > > > > From an Ion perspective, you can have > > > > Acked-by: Laura Abbott > > > > Another Ack for the device model stuff would be good but I'll > > assume deafening silence means nobody hates it. > > Greg, can we get your point of view of this ? It's 1 day after the merge window has closed, and my todo patch queue looks like this: $ mdfrm -c ~/mail/todo/ 1523 messages in /home/gregkh/mail/todo/ Please give me a chance to catch up... greg k-h