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    SubjectRe: [RFC v2 1/8] video: tegra: Add nvhost driver
    On 01.12.2012 16:58, Thierry Reding wrote:
    > I don't know where you see politics in what I said. All I'm saying is
    > that we shouldn't be making things needlessly complex. In my experience
    > the technically cleanest solution is usually the one with the least
    > complexity.

    Let me come up with a proposal and let's then see where to go next.

    > But you already have extra code in the kernel to patch out expired sync-
    > points. Is it really worth the added effort to burden userspace with
    > this? If so I still think some kind of generic IOCTL to retrieve
    > information about a syncpoint would be better than a sysfs interface.

    That's exactly why I mentioned that it's not useful to upstream. There
    are some cases where user space might want to check if a fence has
    passed without waiting for it, but that's marginal and could be handled
    even with waits with zero timeout.

    Terje


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