On Tue Jun 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM CEST, Onur wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:20:48 +0200 > "Benno Lossin" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue Jun 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM CEST, Onur wrote: >> > Should we handle this in the initial implementation or leave it for >> > follow-up patches after the core abstraction of ww_mutex has landed? >> >> Since you're writing these abstractions specifically for usage in >> drm, I think we should look at the intended use-cases there and then >> decide on an API. >> >> So maybe Lyude or Dave can chime in :) >> >> If you (or someone else) have another user for this API that needs it >> ASAP, then we can think about merging this and improve it later. But >> if we don't have a user, then we shouldn't merge it anyways. > > I don't think this is urgent, but it might be better to land the basic > structure first and improve it gradually I think? I would be happy to > continue working for the improvements as I don't plan to leave it as > just the initial version.
I don't think we should land the basic API when we don't have a user in-tree or blessed by the maintainers. > I worked on the v5 review notes, but if we are going to consider > designing a different API, then it doesn't make much sense to send a v6 > patch before finishing the design, which requires additional people in > the topic. That would also mean some of the ongoing review discussion > would be wasted. I would just wait for DRM to say something :) --- Cheers, Benno
