From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC SWIOTLB-0.4]
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:07:49 -0500
Message-ID: <20100204030749.GB15580@phenom.dumpdata.com>
References: <20100203110407H.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
	<1265216892-14230-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
	<20100204091718T.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Return-path: <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com>
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20100204091718T.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-Help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com
Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org, jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, alex.williamson@hp.com
List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:17:31AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed,  3 Feb 2010 12:08:01 -0500
> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Attached is a set of eleven RFC patches that split the SWIOTLB library in
> > two layers: core, and dma_ops related functions.
> 
> What's the point of splitting swiotlb.c? Why can't you just export
> some of functions in swiotlb.c?

I was emulating some of the other libraries that are in the kernel,
where the core functionality was in -core.c file and the users of it
are in subsequent once (libata).