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Subject[PATCH 2/2] dma-buf/sync_file: improve Kconfig description for Sync Files
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From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>

We've got a complaint saying that the description was quite obtuse and
indeed it was. This patch tries to improve it.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
---
drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
index 9824bc4..7e2d2c4 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
menu "DMABUF options"

config SYNC_FILE
- bool "sync_file support for fences"
+ bool "Explicit Synchronization Framework"
default n
select ANON_INODES
select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
---help---
- This option enables the fence framework synchronization to export
- sync_files to userspace that can represent one or more fences.
+ The Sync File Framework adds explicit syncronization via
+ userspace. It enables send/receive 'struct fence' objects to/from
+ userspace via Sync File fds for synchronization between drivers via
+ userspace components. It has been ported from Android.
+
+ The first and main user for this is graphics in which a fence is
+ associated with a buffer. When a job is submitted to the GPU a fence
+ is attached to the buffer and is transfered via userspace, using Sync
+ Files fds, to the DRM driver for example. More details at
+ Documentation/sync_file.txt.
+
endmenu
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