[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH] dma-buf: add get_dma_buf()

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Sun Mar 18 12:04:53 PDT 2012


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:12:22PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> On 16 March 2012 23:23, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Rob Clark <rob.clark at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> From: Rob Clark <rob at ti.com>
> >>
> >> Works in a similar way to get_file(), and is needed in cases such as
> >> when the exporter needs to also keep a reference to the dmabuf (that
> >> is later released with a dma_buf_put()), and possibly other similar
> >> cases.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <rob at ti.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> >
> Thanks; pulled into for-next.

I'm back from vacation and already grumpily complaining about dma-buf
patches ;-) For consistency with dma_buf_put we should call this
dma_buf_get instead of get_dma_buf ... I'll write a bikeshed patch on top
of your tree.
-Daniel
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