[RFC] dma-buf: Rename struct fence to dma_fence

Gustavo Padovan gustavo.padovan at collabora.com
Wed Jul 13 20:19:40 UTC 2016


2016-07-13 Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 03:10:45PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > I plan to usurp the short name of struct fence for a core kernel struct,
> > and so I need to rename the specialised fence/timeline for DMA
> > operations to make room.
> >
> > As an indication of the scale of the flag day:
> >
> >  91 files changed, 904 insertions(+), 880 deletions(-)
> >
> > with the greatest victim being amdgpu.
> >
> > Just the highlights shown below.
> 
> +1 on dma_fence, for more consistency with dma_buf and everything else
> dma_*. I think if we land this right before/after 4.8-rc1 through the drm
> tree it should be minimally invasive. Worst case we'll have a fun merge
> between drm.git and drm-intel.git (since drm-intel-next-queued doesn't get
> closed while the merge window is open).

+1 from me, we just need to make sure we don't create any merge issue.

	Gustavo


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