[alsa-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] drm/xen-front: Use Xen common shared buffer implementation

[Oleksandr Andrushchenko]

On 12/17/18 5:26 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 12/17/18 10:03 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>> On 12/17/18 4:52 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>> On 12/17/18 5:19 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>>>> Hello, Juergen, Boris!
>>>>
>>>> As this DRM part of the series is the only one which needs ack/nack
>>>>
>>>> (and it might take quite some time to complete) could we please
>>>>
>>>> merge the patches 1 and 3 now that already have ack/r-b?
>>>>
>>>
>>> TBH I am not sure it makes sense to do this without the second patch.
>>> Refactoring (and IIUIC this series is purely refactoring --- is it not?)
>>> is done to reduce amount of code, and with only first and third patch we
>>> end up with quite a significant increase in the number of LoC. (I am
>>> going purely by diffstat)
>>>
>>> Of course, the other reason for refactoring is to eliminate code
>>> duplication, but without second patch that will not happen.
>> Agree, but this is the basis for the new pv camera frontend
>>
>> I am working on now [1], so even if we do not remove the code from DRM
>>
>> then we at least do not add it to the camera driver
>
> Since 1 and 3 are already ACKed you should be able to start the camera
> series with these two patches as pre-requisites even if patch 2 is still
> stalled by the time your camera code is posted (which I assume will be
> 4.22 or later).
Agreed, maybe by that time DRM part will also get its r-b/ack
>
>
> -boris
>
>
>>> -boris
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Oleksandr
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/andr2000/linux/blob/camera_front_v1/drivers/media/xen/Kconfig#L6
>>