From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joerg Roedel Subject: Re: [RFC 01/10] iommu: Add IOMMU device registry Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 13:05:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20140704110529.GF13434@8bytes.org> References: <1403815790-8548-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> <1403815790-8548-2-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1403815790-8548-2-git-send-email-thierry.reding-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: Mark Rutland , Will Deacon , Paul Walmsley , Pawel Moll , Rhyland Klein , Ian Campbell , Marc Zyngier , Dave Martin , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Arnd Bergmann , Stephen Warren , Grant Grundler , Allen Martin , Rob Herring , linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Cho KyongHo , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, Kumar Gala List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:49:41PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > Add an IOMMU device registry for drivers to register with and implement > a method for users of the IOMMU API to attach to an IOMMU device. This > allows to support deferred probing and gives the IOMMU API a convenient > hook to perform early initialization of a device if necessary. Can you elaborate on why exactly you need this? The IOMMU-API is designed to hide any details from the user about the available IOMMUs in the system and which IOMMU handles which device. This looks like it is going in a completly different direction from that. Joerg