On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 09:50:31AM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > On 10/5/19 1:37 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:55:28AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: >>> Aren't drivers supposed to use the DMA API for such allocations rather >>> than invoking cma_*() directly? >> Yes, they are. > > We have an engineer assigned to rewriting the ion memory driver to use > dma_buf interfaces. Hopefully that effort will solve the problem of > requiring these interfaces to be exported so that that driver (and others) > can be modularized. > > Thanks for the reviews, drop this patch from the list and we will regroup, > and accept that standing code in the kernel can not be modularized for the > moment. How is that different from the "DMA-BUF Heaps (destaging ION)" series floating around?
