Hi Greg, On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 16:29, Christian König <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 25.10.21 um 12:36 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > 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" <[email protected]> > >> Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]> > >> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]> > >> Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]> > >> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> > >> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> > >> Cc: [email protected] > >> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> > >> Acked-by: Christian König <[email protected]> > >> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> > >> Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <[email protected]> > >> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <[email protected]> > >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > >> --- > >> 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... > > I could push that upstream through the drm-misc-next tree if you like, > but honestly char-misc sounds like the better approach since this > touches a lot of drivers outside of drm as well.
I agree with Christian here - char-misc might be a better way for this. > > > Thanks, > Christian. > > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > Best, Sumit.
