[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] Revert "dma-buf: Report signaled links inside dma-fence-chain"

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Fri Jun 26 12:39:57 UTC 2020


On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:03 AM Christian König
<christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>
> Am 26.06.20 um 06:43 schrieb Sumit Semwal:
> > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 01:24, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >> Ignoring everything else ...
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:28 PM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >>> As a side note, there seem to be extra checks in place for acks when
> >>> applying non-i915 patches to drm-intel; there are no such checks for
> >>> drm-misc.
> >> One option to generalize that that I pondered is to consult
> >> get_maintainers.pl asking for git repo link, and if that returns
> >> something else, then insist that there's an ack from a relevant
> >> maintainer. It's a bit of typing, but I think the bigger problem is
> >> that there's a ton of false positives.
> > Right; for the particular patch, I wasn't even in the to: or cc: field
> > and that made it slip from my radar. I would definitely ask any one
> > sending patches for dma-buf directory to follow the get_maintainers.pl
> > religiously.
> >> But maybe that's a good thing, would give some motivation to keep
> >> MAINTAINERS updated.
>
> Should I maybe add myself as maintainer as well? I've written enough
> stuff in there to know the code quite a bit.

I think that makes lots of sense, since defacto you already are :-)

If you feel like bikeshed, get_maintainers.pl also supports R: for
reviewer, but given that you also push patches to drm-misc M: for
maintainer feels more accurate.
-Daniel


>
> Christian.
>
> >>
> >> The other issue is though that drm-misc is plenty used to merge
> >> patches even when the respective maintainers are absent for weeks, or
> >> unresponsive. If we just blindly implement that rule, then the only
> >> possible Ack for these would be Dave&me as subsystem maintainers, and
> >> I don't want to be in the business of stamping approvals for all this
> >> stuff. Much better if people just collaborate.
> >>
> >> So I think an ack check would be nice, but probably not practical.
> >>
> >> Plus in this situation here drm-misc.git actually is the main repo,
> >> and we wont ever be able to teach a script to make a judgement call of
> >> whether that patch has the right amount of review on it.
> >> -Daniel
> > Best,
> > Sumit.
>


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