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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Nate Drude <nate.d@variscite.com>,
	iommu@lists.linux.dev, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	eran.m@variscite.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-contiguous: add optional cma_name for cma= kernel parameter
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:48:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220923144804.GA18477@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa96eb55-4925-221f-1fb2-8226ea347c22@arm.com>

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:45:17AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> If userspace expects the CMA heap driver to expose a consistent name for 
> CMA heaps, shouldn't it be the CMA heap driver's responsibility to expose a 
> consistent name for CMA heaps? Tinkering with the core CMA code doesn't 
> feel like the right approach.

Agreed.  In fact I think exposing this name in a uapi seems like a really
bad idea that is asking for a lot of trouble.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-12 16:38 [PATCH] dma-contiguous: add optional cma_name for cma= kernel parameter Nate Drude
2022-09-13 10:45 ` Robin Murphy
2022-09-23 14:48   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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