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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>,
	"open list:IOMMU DRIVERS" <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>,
	Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>,
	Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@codeaurora.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 16:10:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170706141045.GA577@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f66b6ebc-9977-8783-4e6a-10dcfcadf60d@arm.com>

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:09:45PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> I suppose another option is to just make the IOMMU and DMA ops a
> self-contained non-modular driver mirroring the VT-d/AMD-Vi IOMMUs -
> AFAICS it shouldn't have to be all that tightly coupled to the IPU bus
> code, the latter more or less just needs to create the appropriate IOMMU
> device for the driver to find.

I still haven't seen the driver code, but this seems to be best
solution so far.  Given that it's not a plug in device but part of
an SOC that seems perfectly acceptable to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-06 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-05  7:12 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Fixes for loadable modules implementing DMA/IOMMU APIs Tomasz Figa
2017-07-05  7:12 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa
2017-07-05 15:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-05 15:22     ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-05 17:20       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-06  1:44         ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06  8:26           ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-06  8:34             ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06  8:36               ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 12:23                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-06 13:31                   ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 13:49                     ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 14:02                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-06 14:06                         ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 14:27                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-06 14:35                             ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 13:56                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-05  7:12 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] base: dma-mapping: Provide a function to look up remapped pages Tomasz Figa
2017-07-05  7:12 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] iommu: Export non-static functions to use in modules Tomasz Figa
2017-07-05  7:12 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: " Tomasz Figa
2017-07-05 16:22   ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-06  2:25     ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 11:09       ` Robin Murphy
2017-07-06 14:10         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-07-06 14:17           ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 14:24             ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-06 14:35               ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-06 14:41                 ` Tomasz Figa
2017-07-05  7:12 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] iommu/dma: Add iommu_dma_cleanup() Tomasz Figa

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