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Re: dma-buf/sync_file: de-stage sync_file

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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 05:31:53AM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
 
 >     dma-buf/sync_file: de-stage sync_file
 >     
 >     sync_file is useful to connect one or more fences to the file. The file is
 >     used by userspace to track fences between drivers that share DMA bufs.
 >     
 >     Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
 >     Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
 >     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

 ...
 
 > +config SYNC_FILE
 > +	bool "sync_file support for fences"
 > +	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.

For such a generic sounding CONFIG_ item, this is one of the more obtuse descriptions
in a kconfig we've had in a while, and the commit message doesn't give any more
clues as to why anyone might want to enable this.

I'm guessing this is some graphics thing given that Daniel reviewed it.
From skimming the other commits, it seems to be some Android thing ?
Are there depends missing perhaps that might make this more obvious ?

Could you elaborate in the help text why someone might want to enable this ?
As is, it's just a bunch of words with no context for anyone who isn't
close to whatever domain this came from.

	Dave

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Re: dma-buf/sync_file: de-stage sync_file Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> - 2016-05-26 04:50 +0200
  Re: dma-buf/sync_file: de-stage sync_file Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk> - 2016-05-27 23:10 +0200

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