Re: [PATCH v2] dma-buf: move dma-buf symbols into the DMA_BUF module namespace

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 02:46:28PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> In order to better track where in the kernel the dma-buf code is used,
> put the symbols in the namespace DMA_BUF and modify all users of the
> symbols to properly import the namespace to not break the build at the
> same time.
> 
> Now the output of modinfo shows the use of these symbols, making it
> easier to watch for users over time:
> 
> $ modinfo drivers/misc/fastrpc.ko | grep import
> import_ns:      DMA_BUF
> 
> Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@amd.com>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> v2: added lots of acks
>     added 2 more drivers that needed the change, as found by Arnd

Ping?  Any ideas on what needs to happen to get this into the tree?

Or can I take it through my char-misc tree?  I seem to have a bunch of
acks on it by the respective maintainers...

thanks,

greg k-h