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From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used
 without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:38:43AM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 03:50 -0700, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 18:09 -0700, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
> > > From: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > iova is a library which can be built without IOMMU_SUPPORT
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
> > 
> > The first three of these patches are in 4.3-rc4 already. Apologies for
> > the delay in pushing them out.
> > 
> > This one looks sane enough too, but perhaps in that case we should move
> > the code *out* of drivers/iommu/ and into lib/iova/ ?
> > 
> 
> Yes, moving the code into lib/iova is the correct long term solution. I
> have sent Greg a patch which reverts this commit since it is no longer
> required and will create a merge conflict for him unnecessarily as well
> with 4.3-rc4.

I can handle merge issues, that's trivial.  Reverting the patch
shoulnd't really be needed, right?  Let me see what happens when I merge
to see if your patch is necessary...