[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: compute wait_ioctl timeout correctly

[John Stultz]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:16 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:42 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> Sigh. So you're going to make me write a separate patch that moves it over?
>>>
>>> We've written it already, Imre posted the link to the old discussion:
>>>
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/10/187
>>>
>>> But if the first attempt doesn't sufficiently stick I tend to chase
>>> the patches any more. But if you want to resurrect this I could ping
>>> Imre and ask him to pick it up again or you could rebase his patches.
>>
>> Well, last I saw the initial patch was buggy, no? I don't think I saw
>> it being resubmitted.
>
> I didn't see your reply in that thread nor in the v2 follow up at
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136854294730957&w=2 Maybe I missed
> it, but response seems to have been lukewarm overall.

Ok, I wasn't cc'ed on the v2, thanks for the pointer.  There's some
general lukewarmness to all things jiffies, since getting rid of them
has been a long term goal forever. But overall that patch set seemed
ok (though I'm not a fan of macro generation of functions). But minor
details..

thanks
-john