Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 9/9] xen/gntdev: Expose gntdev's dma-buf API for in-kernel use

Boris Ostrovsky
2018-06-06T21:51:38Z

On 06/06/2018 08:46 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> On 06/05/2018 01:36 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 06/01/2018 07:41 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>>> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>
>>>
>>> Allow creating grant device context for use by kernel modules which
>>> require functionality, provided by gntdev. Export symbols for dma-buf
>>> API provided by the module.
>> Can you give an example of who'd be using these interfaces?
> There is no use-case at the moment I can think of, but hyper dma-buf
> [1], [2]
> I let Intel folks (CCed) to defend this patch as it was done primarily
> for them
> and I don't use it in any of my use-cases. So, from this POV it can be
> dropped,
> at least from this series.

Yes, let's drop this until someone actually needs it.

-boris

>>
>> -boris
>>
> [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38207/
> [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/204447/
>
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