Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:34:13 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM |
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:24:37AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > the ATI driver guys already have the interface working. > > In addition.. since when is "oh you must also make it work for THAT" a > requirement? Traditionally, it's up to the second person to make > generic code work for them (within reason of course, but I'll argue > that the bar of reasonableness has been met here)
Important difference between code and interfaces. GEM is adding new userspace interface, and it's current form rather ugly ones. We'd better think about these hard, and make sure they are useful for the whole usecase and not a limited subset.
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