Re: [PATCH] staging/ion: Add support to get ion handle from dma buf

2016-01-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:06:22 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote: > It's not really necessary to CC linux-kernel. No one reads it. I have to take issue with this too; more of us read it than you might think. The fact that we're probably all crazy doesn't really figure into it. Think of linux-kernel as t

Re: [PATCH] staging/ion: Add support to get ion handle from dma buf

2016-01-06 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 10:21:33AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Dan Carpenter > wrote: > > It's not really necessary to CC linux-kernel. No one reads it. Some of us still do. > > I only send patches there when there isn't another public mailing > > list availa

Re: [PATCH] staging/ion: Add support to get ion handle from dma buf

2016-01-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > It's not really necessary to CC linux-kernel. No one reads it. > I only send patches there when there isn't another public mailing > list available. Actually, cc'ing lkml is still often a good idea, because it's a great archiving point. I k

Re: [PATCH] staging/ion: Add support to get ion handle from dma buf

2016-01-06 Thread Dan Carpenter
It's not really necessary to CC linux-kernel. No one reads it. I only send patches there when there isn't another public mailing list available. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: [PATCH] staging/ion: Add support to get ion handle from dma buf

2016-01-05 Thread Rohit
Sorry to resend the patch without [RESEND] tag. Actually I had missed to add de...@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org in mail last time. I will update the commit message with the explanation and send the PATCHv2 soon. Thanks, Rohit On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:12:39 -0800 Laura Abbott

Re: [PATCH] staging/ion: Add support to get ion handle from dma buf

2016-01-05 Thread Laura Abbott
On 01/05/2016 05:03 AM, Rohit kumar wrote: Currently we can only import dma buf fd's to get ion_handle. Adding support to import dma buf handles to support kernel specific use cases. Signed-off-by: Rohit kumar --- Currently, ION is the memory manager for graphics in android. However, in other l