Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 May 2015 08:48:45 +0100 | From | Daniel Thompson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 v3.18-rc4 1/4] drm: prime: Honour O_RDWR during prime-handle-to-fd |
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On 27/05/15 04:15, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote: > Hello, >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> wrote: >>> Currently DRM_IOCTL_PRIME_HANDLE_TO_FD rejects all flags except >>> (DRM|O)_CLOEXEC making it hard for the userspace to generate a file >>> descriptor that can be used by mmap(). >>> >>> It is easy to relax the restriction and allow read/write permissions. >>> This should be safe because the flags are seldom touched by drm; mostly >>> they are passed verbatim to dma_buf calls. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> >> >> Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> > > It's a little bit old by now, but I'm wondering if someone call tell me > whether this patch is likely to be merged sometime, or has it been > (should it be?) abandoned.
For me, this code remains useful and it would be good to merge it.
I accidentally removed the whole patchset from my "keep-resending-these-patches" when patch 3 went upstream... I'll rebase this when I get a chance.
Daniel.
PS Damn it all..., Rob may (or may not) remember my saying I had trouble getting the DRM GFX code to come up on my Android/IFC6410 port. Losing track of this patch would certainly explain it!
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