Re: DMA_SG removed : How to support M2M on userspace allocated buffers?

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On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:38:17PM +0000, Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In kernel upgrade 4.14 DMA_SG is removed from DMA framework since
> it was a dead code and having no consumers in the kernel.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/dmaengine/msg13835.html
> 
> However, there are some xilinx customers using this feature out of
> the tree and are dependent on DMA_SG. Removing DMA_SG from
> framework will break such use cases i.e doing memory to memory
> transfer on userspace allocated (malloc) buffers.
> 
> What is the recommendation from the community on supporting above
> usecase?

Submit a driver along with this feature, its that simple :)

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