[git pull] dma-buf tree

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sun Jan 8 14:08:41 PST 2012


On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at linux.ie> wrote:
>
> Now we've all agreed that the initial implementation is a good baseline
> for us to move forward on, but its messy working with others when the core
> code is out of tree. So we'd like to merge the core dma-buf code now so we
> can all build on top of it for 3.4. I know some people would say we
> shouldn't merge things with no users, but it will really make our lives
> easier going forward to get this baseline into the tree.

Ok, merged.

However, I ask myself whether it's ever sane to ask the user to enable
this? Isn't this very much a "drivers will use 'select' to pick up the
intfrastructure code" kind of thing?

                      Linus


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