Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:36:55 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] dma-buf: move dma-buf symbols into the DMA_BUF module namespace |
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 02:46:28PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > In order to better track where in the kernel the dma-buf code is used, > put the symbols in the namespace DMA_BUF and modify all users of the > symbols to properly import the namespace to not break the build at the > same time. > > Now the output of modinfo shows the use of these symbols, making it > easier to watch for users over time: > > $ modinfo drivers/misc/fastrpc.ko | grep import > import_ns: DMA_BUF > > Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@amd.com> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> > Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> > Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > --- > v2: added lots of acks > added 2 more drivers that needed the change, as found by Arnd
Ping? Any ideas on what needs to happen to get this into the tree?
Or can I take it through my char-misc tree? I seem to have a bunch of acks on it by the respective maintainers...
thanks,
greg k-h
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